Socrates

From the Greek name σῶς (sos) meaning "whole, unwounded, safe" and kratos) meaning "power" [1] [2] [3] . This was the name of an important Greek philosopher. He left no writings of his own; virtually everything that we know of his beliefs comes from his pupil Plato. He was sentenced to death for impiety.

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1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Σωκράτης.
2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry sw=s1, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dsw%3Ds1.
3. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry kra/tos, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dkra%2Ftos.

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