Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      we can attach any serious meaning to his words. Had he lived
 2 Phaedr|        he proceeds with a deep meaning, though partly in joke,
 3 Phaedr|      manners were unknown. The meaning of this and other wild language
 4 Phaedr| Parmenides have no allegorical meaning, and that the poet is only
 5 Phaedr|   prophecies of Scripture, the meaning is allowed to break through
 6 Phaedr|     writings that this was his meaning. Or, again, when he explains
 7 Phaedr|      allegory which allows the meaning to come through. The image
 8 Phaedr|        We must not attribute a meaning to every fanciful detail.
 9 Phaedr|        praise in like manner, ‘meaning ourselves,’ without regard
10 Phaedr| pleasures which cannot be had, meaning sweet things which, like
11 Phaedr|        them; and therefore the meaning of this saying is not hastily
12 Phaedr|   SOCRATES: Perhaps that is my meaning. But let us leave them.
13 Phaedr|        notions and so make his meaning clear.~PHAEDRUS: What is