Dialogue

 1 Lysis|       Hippothales, the foolish lover of Lysis, respecting the
 2 Lysis|    position the philosopher or lover of wisdom stands: he is
 3 Lysis|        Hippothales the flighty lover, who murders sleep by bawling
 4 Lysis|        whether you know what a lover ought to say about his love,
 5 Lysis|       is: for although he is a lover, and very devotedly in love,
 6 Lysis|         and therefore the wise lover does not praise his beloved
 7 Lysis|    Darius himself: I am such a lover of friends as that. And
 8 Lysis|      one loves another, is the lover or the beloved the friend;
 9 Lysis|       meaning.~But what if the lover is not loved in return?
10 Lysis|        friend of which? Is the lover the friend of the beloved,
11 Lysis|      in return is beloved by a lover?~I think not.~Then they
12 Lysis|     hating, may be dear to the lover of it: for example, very
13 Lysis|      true.~And, if so, not the lover, but the beloved, is the
14 Lysis|     But if this cannot be, the lover will be the friend of that
15 Lysis| appears to be true.~But if the lover is not a friend, nor the
16 Lysis|      he who loves not is not a lover or friend?~Clearly not.~
17 Lysis|        or ignorant person is a lover of wisdom. There remain
18 Lysis|     follows, he said.~Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit,
19 Lysis|   neither the beloved, nor the lover, nor the like, nor the unlike,