Dialogue

1 Phaedr|           lottery.’ Then he would describe their way of life after
2 Phaedr|           a modern Socrates might describe the evils of married and
3 Phaedr|        friendship. The poet might describe in eloquent words the nature
4 Phaedr| impossible, we at once pass on to describe the souls of gods as well
5 Phaedr|         deeper, we can still only describe the outward nature of the
6 Phaedr|     speech was really such as you describe.~SOCRATES: Well, and is
7 Phaedr|    worthily? It is such as I will describe; for I must dare to speak
8 Phaedr|         they write is such as you describe—there I agree with you.
9 Phaedr|          to him, and how shall we describe him?~SOCRATES: Isocrates