Dialogue

 1 Lysis|          the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also
 2 Lysis|     carried on in the absence of Menexenus, who is called away to take
 3 Lysis|     beloved.~After the return of Menexenus, Socrates, at the request
 4 Lysis|         What is friendship? You, Menexenus, who have a friend already,
 5 Lysis|    friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus, are still unable to find
 6 Lysis| characters of the more talkative Menexenus and the reserved and simple
 7 Lysis|            No they do not.’ When Menexenus returns, the serious dialectic
 8 Lysis|   Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus.~
 9 Lysis|     familiar, and whose relation Menexenus is his great friend, shall
10 Lysis|         first of all, his friend Menexenus, leaving his play, entered
11 Lysis|        and listened.~I turned to Menexenus, and said: Son of Demophon,
12 Lysis|          two; but at this moment Menexenus was called away by some
13 Lysis|       refrained.~In the meantime Menexenus came back and sat down in
14 Lysis|     privately in my ear, so that Menexenus should not hear: Do, Socrates,
15 Lysis|         hear: Do, Socrates, tell Menexenus what you have been telling
16 Lysis|           but then, as you know, Menexenus is very pugnacious, and
17 Lysis|      saying, and wants me to ask Menexenus, who, as he thinks, is likely
18 Lysis|        said, I will; and do you, Menexenus, answer. But first I must
19 Lysis|          he is right?~Yes.~Then, Menexenus, the conclusion is, that
20 Lysis|          cannot find any.~But, O Menexenus! I said, may we not have
21 Lysis|      Lysis, and I wanted to give Menexenus a rest, so I turned to him
22 Lysis|           that he is right, said Menexenus.~Then we are to say that
23 Lysis|         opposites?~Exactly.~Yes, Menexenus; but will not that be a
24 Lysis|          said.~And so, Lysis and Menexenus, we have discovered the
25 Lysis|        and said, Alas! Lysis and Menexenus, I am afraid that we have
26 Lysis|          Why do you say so? said Menexenus.~I am afraid, I said, that
27 Lysis|       congenial. Such, Lysis and Menexenus, is the inference.~They
28 Lysis|         his form.~Yes, yes, said Menexenus. But Lysis was silent.~Then,
29 Lysis|     loved by his love.~Lysis and Menexenus gave a faint assent to this;
30 Lysis|          then I think, Lysis and Menexenus, there may be some sense
31 Lysis|          the tutors of Lysis and Menexenus, who came upon us like an
32 Lysis|        to the boys at parting: O Menexenus and Lysis, how ridiculous