Dialogue

 1 Lysis|      elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In
 2 Lysis|   third; and neither the two boys nor Socrates are satisfied
 3 Lysis|       know nothing;’ but the boys have already learned the
 4 Lysis|   innocent friendship of the boys with one another. Some difference
 5 Lysis|   Hermaea, the young men and boys are all together, and there
 6 Lysis|   entering we found that the boys had just been sacrificing;
 7 Lysis|      standing with the other boys and youths, having a crown
 8 Lysis|      his side; and the other boys joined. I should observe
 9 Lysis| which is the fairer?~The two boys laughed.~I shall not ask
10 Lysis|       Then at this point, my boys, let us take heed, and be
11 Lysis|     both said.~And I say, my boys, that no one who loves or
12 Lysis| latter alternative.~Then, my boys, we have again fallen into
13 Lysis|  angry, and kept calling the boys—they appeared to us to have
14 Lysis|  however, a few words to the boys at parting: O Menexenus
15 Lysis|      ridiculous that you two boys, and I, an old boy, who