Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      upon him; there is the same old withered face and the remainder
 2 Phaedr|          of writing. There is an old Egyptian tale of Theuth,
 3 Phaedr|         all, as a remedy against old age. The natural process
 4 Phaedr|           they might regain that old simplicity which had been
 5 Phaedr|          and to the Athenians of old. Would he not have asked
 6 Phaedr|     against the forgetfulness of old age, but to live is higher
 7 Phaedr|      Socrates, is the son of his old friend Cephalus? Or that
 8 Phaedr|     Christian doctrines in these old Greek legends? While acknowledging
 9 Phaedr| peacemakers’ between the new and old are liable to serious misconstruction,
10 Phaedr|       and of the contrast of the old literature and the new was
11 Phaedr|    rather than the rich, and the old man rather than the young
12 Phaedr|     present, and will injure his old love at the pleasure of
13 Phaedr|      disagreeable companion. The old proverb says that ‘birds
14 Phaedr|      himself upon him. For he is old and his love is young, and
15 Phaedr|      disgust when he looks at an old shrivelled face and the
16 Phaedr|       through him, and again the old awe steals over him; then
17 Phaedr|      little, disguise the new in old fashions and the old in
18 Phaedr|          in old fashions and the old in new fashions, and have
19 Phaedr|       for the ‘sorrows of a poor old man,’ or any other pathetic
20 Phaedr|    Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth;
21 Phaedr| prophetic utterances. The men of old, unlike in their simplicity
22 Phaedr|     against the forgetfulness of old age, by himself, or by any
23 Phaedr|         himself, or by any other old man who is treading the