Dialogue

 1 Lysis|      recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder
 2 Lysis|      is a conversation between Socrates and Lysis, who, like Charmides,
 3 Lysis|      take part in a sacrifice. Socrates asks Lysis whether his father
 4 Lysis|      knowledge. In this manner Socrates reads a lesson to Hippothales,
 5 Lysis|       the return of Menexenus, Socrates, at the request of Lysis,
 6 Lysis|       neither the two boys nor Socrates are satisfied with any of
 7 Lysis|     three or with all of them. Socrates turns to the poets, who
 8 Lysis|      to steal over the mind of Socrates: Must not friendship be
 9 Lysis|         and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus, are
10 Lysis|      conclusion is arrived at. Socrates maintains his character
11 Lysis|       balancing in the mind of Socrates:—First, the sense that friendship
12 Lysis|       is too strictly limited; Socrates has allowed himself to be
13 Lysis|      the ‘accustomed irony’ of Socrates, who declares, as in the
14 Lysis|     caustic Ctesippus, of whom Socrates professes a humorous sort
15 Lysis|     reserved and simple Lysis. Socrates draws out the latter by
16 Lysis|        dramatic propriety, and Socrates proposes at last to refer
17 Lysis|     the Lysis. We may ask with Socrates, 1) whether friendship is ‘
18 Lysis|       PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus,
19 Lysis|    persons have one favourite, Socrates, and some another, he said.~
20 Lysis|         and hesitating to tell Socrates the name; when, if he were
21 Lysis|    about nothing else. Indeed, Socrates, he has literally deafened
22 Lysis|    himself, or to others.~Nay, Socrates, he said; you surely do
23 Lysis|       not in honour of myself, Socrates.~You think not? I said.~
24 Lysis|     take you into my counsels, Socrates, and I shall be glad of
25 Lysis|       he is fond of listening, Socrates. And as this is the festival
26 Lysis|       you desire?~Yes, indeed, Socrates; there are a great many
27 Lysis|      spinning implements.~Nay, Socrates, he replied, laughing; not
28 Lysis|      do nothing?~Why, he said, Socrates, the reason is that I am
29 Lysis|      to us?~That is very true, Socrates, he replied.~Then now, my
30 Lysis|       to be conceited.~Indeed, Socrates, I think not.~When I heard
31 Lysis| Menexenus should not hear: Do, Socrates, tell Menexenus what you
32 Lysis|       I will be sure to do so, Socrates; but go on telling him something
33 Lysis|       you see him?~Never mind, Socrates, you shall argue with him.~
34 Lysis|      his enemy.~I quite agree, Socrates, in what you say.~But if
35 Lysis|         Do any remain?~Indeed, Socrates, I cannot find any.~But,
36 Lysis|       that we have been wrong, Socrates, said Lysis. And he blushed