In his perfect ignorance—and consequently with perfect impartiality—he begins the process of stripping himself of the privileges of family, community, and citizenship. His impartiality suggests, moreover, that the punishments should fit his crimes. What precisely is their nature? If it is his perfect ignorance, then it would appear that, in view of the gods at least, ignorance is a punishable offense. How might that be just? Is it perhaps because the ignorance is not entirely innocent; it results from a refusal to heed the Delphic dictum to know oneself, which one does, presumably, by consulting the oracle over whose entry that dictum stands? [Mpei] [Mi]