Finally I went to the craftsmen, for I was conscious of knowing practically nothing, and I knew that I would find that they had knowledge [d] of many fine things. In this I was not mistaken; they knew things I did not know, and to that extent they were wiser than I. But, men of Athens, the good craftsmen seemed to me to have the same fault as the poets: each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error of [e] theirs overshadowed the wisdom they had, so that I asked myself, on behalf of the oracle, whether I should
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