"I do not think that it is just for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by doing so; he ought to inform them of the facts and convince them by argument" (Section 35c, page 63).
In this text, Socrates is using himself as an example. Whatever I have read about him, he has not really asked questions about himself. He is usually asking about some random individual, but this time, he shows that he is censoring himself and asking the jury if they think it is right to put him to death or not. Also, I think this text could be good to bring up in the trial: "should Socrates have been put to death or should he have lived?" I might use this as my topic for the trial if we ever have a debate on it.
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