Socrates' first words in his Apology were an explanation of how he could not speak in rhetoric as the lawyers and learned men do. However, Socrates is still very persuasive. When he confronts the "wise" people of the day he is easily able to make them contradict themselves. Also, in Crito, Socrates is able to make Crito completely change his position. (Crito goes from trying to convince Socrates to escape, to believing that Socrates should indeed stay in prison)
However, despite Socrates' ability to persuade, he is still unable to persuade the jury that he is not quilty? Why is this? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that during his defense he implied that he was smarter than the rest of the state (Horse Analogy); or maybe that he accused the state of not upholding true righteousness (in his reason for why he would never be a politian Socrates said that no man "struggling against the commision of unrighteousness and wrong in the state" will ever win against the jury ) Socrates was so sold out to revealing the truth, that in his defense he made statements that even condemned him to his own death. It wasn't that socrates was unskilled in rhetoric, it was that he did not care enough to use it in this case.
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