Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|            Mem.), Crito the aged friend, the attendant of the prison,
 2 Phaedo|      prison, who is as good as a friend—these take part in the conversation.
 3 Phaedo|        For he found that his new friend was anything but consistent
 4 Phaedo|         a lost mother or love or friend in the world below (Phaedo)
 5 Phaedo|        the Euthydemus), the best friend of Socrates, who wants to
 6 Phaedo|        present at the death of a friend, and therefore I did not
 7 Phaedo| Undoubtedly, Socrates.~But, O my friend, if this is true, there
 8 Phaedo|        joy? Surely he will, O my friend, if he be a true philosopher.
 9 Phaedo|      time which remains.~Yes, my friend, but if so, when do we lose
10 Phaedo|       this corporeal element, my friend, is heavy and weighty and
11 Phaedo|         answered: I dare say, my friend, that you may be right,
12 Phaedo|     think differently, my Theban friend, if you still maintain that
13 Phaedo|         quite think so.~Then, my friend, we can never be right in
14 Phaedo|       similar fate.~Nay, my good friend, said Socrates, let us not
15 Phaedo|   variance with itself: then, my friend, we were speaking of things
16 Phaedo|      disconcerted, Cebes, at our friend’s objection?~No, I do not
17 Phaedo|        more to object; but if my friend Simmias, or any one else,
18 Phaedo|      listen to you.~The tale, my friend, he said, is as follows:—
19 Phaedo|      Socrates said: You, my good friend, who are experienced in
20 Phaedo|       having to part from such a friend. Nor was I the first; for
21 Phaedo|          end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly