Dialogue

 1 Lysis|            come straight to us, he said, and put in here; you may
 2 Lysis|            as well.~Who are you, I said; and where am I to come?~
 3 Lysis|            the wall. And there, he said, is the building at which
 4 Lysis|          are welcome.~Thank you, I said; and is there any teacher
 5 Lysis|         any teacher there?~Yes, he said, your old friend and admirer,
 6 Lysis|    professor.~Are you disposed, he said, to go with me and see them?~
 7 Lysis|            me and see them?~Yes, I said; but I should like to know
 8 Lysis|     Socrates, and some another, he said.~And who is yours? I asked:
 9 Lysis|          At this he blushed; and I said to him, O Hippothales, thou
10 Lysis|           more and more.~Ctesippus said: I like to see you blushing,
11 Lysis|          blushing.~Who is Lysis? I said: I suppose that he must
12 Lysis|      recall any one to me.~Why, he said, his father being a very
13 Lysis|         tell me whose son he is, I said.~He is the eldest son of
14 Lysis|         Aexone.~Ah, Hippothales, I said; what a noble and really
15 Lysis|          others.~Nay, Socrates, he said; you surely do not attach
16 Lysis|          is saying.~Do you mean, I said, that you disown the love
17 Lysis|          is not in his right mind, said Ctesippus; he is talking
18 Lysis|        stark mad.~O Hippothales, I said, if you have ever made any
19 Lysis|            be able to tell you, he said; for if, as he avers, the
20 Lysis| recollection of them.~Yes, indeed, said Ctesippus; I know only too
21 Lysis|          him.~When I heard this, I said: O ridiculous Hippothales!
22 Lysis|            my songs and verses, he said, are not in honour of myself,
23 Lysis|         Socrates.~You think not? I said.~Nay, but what do you think?
24 Lysis|         replied.~Most assuredly, I said, those songs are all in
25 Lysis|         not agree with me?~Yes, he said.~And the more vain-glorious
26 Lysis|          poetry.~Assuredly not, he said; such a poet would be a
27 Lysis|           not easy to determine, I said; but if you will bring your
28 Lysis|            That will be the way, I said. Thereupon I led Ctesippus
29 Lysis|           turned to Menexenus, and said: Son of Demophon, which
30 Lysis|          of dispute between us, he said.~And which is the nobler?
31 Lysis|           the richer of the two, I said; for you are friends, are
32 Lysis|           by some one who came and said that the gymnastic-master
33 Lysis|    questions. I dare say, Lysis, I said, that your father and mother
34 Lysis|           very much.~Certainly, he said.~And they would wish you
35 Lysis|        should think not indeed, he said.~And if your father and
36 Lysis|         doing.~What do you mean? I said. Do they want you to be
37 Lysis|         prevent you?~Certainly, he said, they will not allow me
38 Lysis|      indeed they will not.~Then, I said, may no one use the whip
39 Lysis|         whip to the mules?~Yes, he said, the muleteer.~And is he
40 Lysis|            a free man?~A slave, he said.~And do they esteem a slave
41 Lysis|           even allow that?~Nay, he said; of course they do not allow
42 Lysis|       slave, he replied.~Surely, I said, this is a strange thing,
43 Lysis|         touch one of them.~Well, I said, this is amazing. And did
44 Lysis|            can do nothing?~Why, he said, Socrates, the reason is
45 Lysis|         that is the real reason, I said; for I should imagine that
46 Lysis|         with you.~That is true, he said.~Then what can be the reason,
47 Lysis|            be the reason, Lysis, I said, why they allow you to do
48 Lysis|           the other?~I suppose, he said, because I understand the
49 Lysis|       other.~Yes, my dear youth, I said, the reason is not any deficiency
50 Lysis|            you.~I think so.~Aye, I said; and about your neighbour,
51 Lysis|         let me put another case, I said: There is the great king,
52 Lysis|         Then now, my dear Lysis, I said, you perceive that in things
53 Lysis|         confusion at what had been said, and I remembered that,
54 Lysis|         certainly cannot refuse, I said, since you ask me; but then,
55 Lysis|          upset me.~Yes, indeed, he said; he is very pugnacious,
56 Lysis|          of myself?~No, indeed, he said; but I want you to put him
57 Lysis|     ourselves.~I shall be happy, I said, to let you have a share.
58 Lysis|         why do you not ask him? he said.~Very well, I said, I will;
59 Lysis|         him? he said.~Very well, I said, I will; and do you, Menexenus,
60 Lysis|          of either.~Do you mean, I said, that if only one of them
61 Lysis|            mutual friends?~Yes, he said; that is my meaning.~But
62 Lysis|          Is not that true?~Yes, he said, quite true.~In that case,
63 Lysis|           any.~But, O Menexenus! I said, may we not have been altogether
64 Lysis|         have been wrong, Socrates, said Lysis. And he blushed as
65 Lysis|             so I turned to him and said, I think, Lysis, that what
66 Lysis|         heard those words.~Yes, he said; I have.~And have you not
67 Lysis|            They may be.~Perhaps, I said, about half, or possibly,
68 Lysis|          Is not that true?~Yes, he said.~Then one half of the saying
69 Lysis|          that the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity
70 Lysis|         good are friends.’~Yes, he said, that is true.~Yes, I replied;
71 Lysis|          And I thought that he who said this was a charming man,
72 Lysis|         hearing, that he is right, said Menexenus.~Then we are to
73 Lysis|            is possible.~And yet, I said, if friendship goes by contraries,
74 Lysis|          good?~How do you mean? he said.~Why really, I said, the
75 Lysis|             he said.~Why really, I said, the truth is that I do
76 Lysis|     ointment?~What do you mean? he said.~This is what I mean: Suppose
77 Lysis|      peculiar sort?~The latter, he said.~Then that which is neither
78 Lysis|      remember that?~Yes, they both said.~And so, Lysis and Menexenus,
79 Lysis|          untrue. I was pained, and said, Alas! Lysis and Menexenus,
80 Lysis|           only.~Why do you say so? said Menexenus.~I am afraid,
81 Lysis|          Menexenus.~I am afraid, I said, that the argument about
82 Lysis|            mean? he asked.~Well, I said; look at the matter in this
83 Lysis|           not quite follow you, he said.~I do not wonder at that,
84 Lysis|           do not wonder at that, I said. But perhaps, if I put the
85 Lysis|   Certainly.~And what of health? I said. Is that good or evil, or
86 Lysis|            And may not the same be said of the friend? That which
87 Lysis|       something else is improperly said to be dear, but the truly
88 Lysis|    friendships terminate.~That, he said, appears to be true.~And
89 Lysis|            oh! will you tell me, I said, whether if evil were to
90 Lysis|       Likely enough.~But surely, I said, he who desires, desires
91 Lysis|      another?~Certainly, they both said.~And I say, my boys, that
92 Lysis|          or in his form.~Yes, yes, said Menexenus. But Lysis was
93 Lysis|          Lysis was silent.~Then, I said, the conclusion is, that
94 Lysis|           be loved.~It follows, he said.~Then the lover, who is
95 Lysis|          to revise the argument, I said: Can we point out any difference
96 Lysis|        know not what remains to be said.~Here I was going to invite
97 Lysis|            broke up the company.~I said, however, a few words to