This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...old place by Lysis. Then Lysis whispered to me in a very boyish, loving way--not loud enough for Menexenus to hear--' Tell Menexenus too, Socrates, what you have told me.' I said, ' You shall tell him yourself, Lysis; for I know you have listened attentively.' ' Certainly I have, ' he said." The above ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...old place by Lysis. Then Lysis whispered to me in a very boyish, loving way--not loud enough for Menexenus to hear--' Tell Menexenus too, Socrates, what you have told me.' I said, ' You shall tell him yourself, Lysis; for I know you have listened attentively.' ' Certainly I have, ' he said." The above extracts are taken from the introductory chapters of the dialogue called Lysis, and only serve as a preface to the real argument, which deals with the true basis of friendship. I have quoted from them rather than from later parts of the dialogue, because it seems to me that it is in such introductions that the personal relation of Socrates to his interlocutors is best revealed. By these more than by what we may call the doctrinal chapters one can in some sort begin to realise as well the social charm of Socrates, as the kind of persons with whom he was accustomed to converse, and the kind of situation which forms the setting to his conversation. The Lysis is a " talk" on friendship; and as in most real talks--and therefore as in many of Plato's dialogues--the main question is not really settled one way or the other. Socrates' last word is, " If friendship is neither this nor that" (and he enumerates different possibilities) " then yo kv ovKfTi fa Tl f-yca" " behold, we know not anything." " Having said this, I was minded to question some one of the elder men. But then came Menexenus' and Lysis' attendants, like evil spirits; they had the boys' brothers with them, and kept urging our friends to come home, for it was late by this time. At first we and the bystanders tried to get rid of them; but they cared nothing for us, and went on calling the boys, speaking angrily with their foreign accent. Apparently they had drunk too much at the...
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