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   1 Phaedr|         image of an immortal steed; (3) The notion that the divine
   2 Phaedr|    essentially moral nature of God; (4) Again, there is the hint
   3 Phaedr|             to a year not later than 406, when Isocrates was thirty
   4 Phaedr|           458; Isocrates in the year 436, about seven years before
   5 Phaedr|          Lysias was born in the year 458; Isocrates in the year 436,
   6 Phaedr|             not to be found in art; (5) There occurs the first
   7 Phaedr|              and contingent matter; (6) The conception of the soul
   8 Phaedr|               and now as the heat is abated let us depart.~SOCRATES:
   9 Phaedr|            this spot by his sad tomb abiding, I shall declare to passers-by
  10 Phaedr|      according to the measure of his abilities, clinging in recollection
  11 Phaedr|              to the measure of their ability, in the way which is most
  12 Phaedr|            descendants take up their abode in others. Such an orator
  13 Phaedr|              though opposed, are not absolutely separated the one from the
  14 Phaedr|       technicalities of rhetoric are absorbed. And so the example becomes
  15 Phaedr|              of the unseen, is total abstinence from bodily delights. ‘But
  16 Phaedr|         understand him, we must make abstraction of morality and of the Greek
  17 Phaedr|             seemed to centre. To him abstractions, as we call them, were another
  18 Phaedr|            refers. Or, again, in his absurd derivation of mantike and
  19 Phaedr|           Still, notwithstanding the absurdities of Polus and others, rhetoric
  20 Phaedr|         times will remain to furnish abundant materials of education to
  21 Phaedr|            if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to
  22 Phaedr|              of your politicians was abusing him on this very account;
  23 Phaedr|              grammatical form, or an accent, or the uses of a word,
  24 Phaedr|          about all the advantages of accepting the non-lover. Why do you
  25 Phaedr|             the non-lover to him who accepts their advances.~He who is
  26 Phaedr|            attribute anything to the accidental inference which would also
  27 Phaedr|            progresses through Hellas accompanied by a troop of their disciples—
  28 Phaedr|              them together, and they accomplish that desire of their hearts
  29 Phaedr|            Isocrates may possibly be accounted for by the circumstance
  30 Phaedr|     advantages in which the lover is accused of being deficient. And
  31 Phaedr|     exercises and the sweat of toil, accustomed only to a soft and luxurious
  32 Phaedr|             old Greek legends? While acknowledging that such interpretations
  33 Phaedr|          stirring scenes of life and action which would make a man of
  34 Phaedr|      secondly, the mode in which she acts or is acted upon.~PHAEDRUS:
  35 Phaedr|             truth, and the manner of adapting the truth to the natures
  36 Phaedr|           long patching and piecing, adding some and taking away some,
  37 Phaedr|            was the quality which, in addition to his natural gifts, Pericles
  38 Phaedr|           the place of starting. His address to the fair youth begins
  39 Phaedr|         simple form of speech may be addressed to the simpler nature, and
  40 Phaedr|            the fair youth whom I was addressing before, and who ought to
  41 Phaedr|          Phaedrus into an ecstacy is adduced as an example of the false
  42 Phaedr|              saw. Few only retain an adequate remembrance of them; and
  43 Phaedr|       themselves nor teach the truth adequately to others?~PHAEDRUS: No,
  44 Phaedr|            have your real opinion; I adjure you, by Zeus, the god of
  45 Phaedr|              and hence he is full of admiration for the beauties of nature,
  46 Phaedr|             a nature friendly to his admirer, if in former days he has
  47 Phaedr|           the primum mobile, and the admission of impulse into the immortal
  48 Phaedr|          this further point: friends admonish the lover under the idea
  49 Phaedr|          quite well. Nor, until they adopt our method of reading and
  50 Phaedr|            other numbers; with these adorning the myriad actions of ancient
  51 Phaedr|            his god, and fashions and adorns as a sort of image which
  52 Phaedr|         Quite true.~SOCRATES: And if Adrastus the mellifluous or Pericles
  53 Phaedr|              disgraced, now as years advance, at the appointed age and
  54 Phaedr|             to him who accepts their advances.~He who is the victim of
  55 Phaedr|             some other lie which his adversary will thus gain an opportunity
  56 Phaedr|             not even the lover would advise you to indulge all lovers,
  57 Phaedr|           man should know what he is advising about, or his counsel will
  58 Phaedr|          insight may have seen, from afar, the great literary waste
  59 Phaedr|              has never neglected his affairs or quarrelled with his relations;
  60 Phaedr|            the best, we spoke of the affection of love in a figure, into
  61 Phaedr|      literature and of art seriously affects the manners and character
  62 Phaedr|          truth, and we had just been affirming that he who knew the truth
  63 Phaedr|        proved to be immortal, he who affirms that self-motion is the
  64 Phaedr|       trusting himself to one who is afflicted with a malady which no experienced
  65 Phaedr|          from the calamity which was afflicting him. The third kind is the
  66 Phaedr|      sensible and permanent which is afforded by them; and he sought to
  67 Phaedr|        spreading plane-tree, and the agnus castus high and clustering,
  68 Phaedr|            think that they have long ago made to the beloved a very
  69 Phaedr|              and this is the hour of agony and extremest conflict for
  70 Phaedr|             fate has called him (‘he aiblins might, I dinna ken’). But
  71 Phaedr|            you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence,
  72 Phaedr|          else; natural power must be aided by art. But the art is not
  73 Phaedr|          Lysias the son of Cephalus. Alas! how inferior to them he
  74 Phaedr|          follows, beginning with the Alexandrian writers and even before
  75 Phaedr|               with them the point is all-important.~SOCRATES: I dare say that
  76 Phaedr|         horses of Parmenides have no allegorical meaning, and that the poet
  77 Phaedr|        Republic; remarking only that allowance must be made for the poetical
  78 Phaedr|              the non-lover, which is alloyed with a worldly prudence
  79 Phaedr|             desire drive him on, and allure him with the pleasure which
  80 Phaedr|             also, like several other allusions which occur in the course
  81 Phaedr|              by nature tends to soar aloft and carry that which gravitates
  82 Phaedr|             I think, some sort of an altar of Boreas at the place.~
  83 Phaedr|            love Which alters when it alteration finds.~...~Love’s not time’
  84 Phaedr|             the word has been lately altered and made sonorous by the
  85 Phaedr|           and she might answer: What amazing nonsense you are talking!
  86 Phaedr|          full of inconsistencies and ambiguities which were not perceived
  87 Phaedr|          distance. There, lying down amidst pleasant sounds and scents,
  88 Phaedr|           made to the beloved a very ample return. But the non-lover
  89 Phaedr|          pastime of a man who can be amused by serious talk, and can
  90 Phaedr|      speeches.~SOCRATES: What a very amusing notion! But I think, my
  91 Phaedr|              we can interpret him by analogy with reference to the errors
  92 Phaedr|             painter, such as Michael Angelo, or a great poet, such as
  93 Phaedr|              me, and do not in thine anger deprive me of sight, or
  94 Phaedr|               and of their exceeding animosities, and of the injuries which
  95 Phaedr|               legislators, we hereby announce that if their compositions
  96 Phaedr|             promise. It may be truly answered that at present the training
  97 Phaedr|              To these questions many answers may be given, which if not
  98 Phaedr|              s image, love for love (Anteros) lodging in his breast,
  99 Phaedr|          depth of earth; and he will anticipate the inner growth of the
 100 Phaedr|           more.’~Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over
 101 Phaedr|             truth of any kind. It is antipathetic to him not only as a philosopher,
 102 Phaedr|            was justly appreciated in antiquity except by his own contemporaries;
 103 Phaedr|            seems to arise out of the antithesis to the former conception
 104 Phaedr|          crises of life, will be the anxiety of his friends and also
 105 Phaedr|              he is equally afraid of anybody’s influence who has any
 106       | anywhere
 107 Phaedr|            prophet Isaiah, or of the Apocalypse, familiar to us in the days
 108 Phaedr|      illustrations.’ (Compare Symp., Apol., Euthyphro.)~He next proceeds
 109 Phaedr|        intimate here, as in the Ion, Apology, Meno, and elsewhere, that
 110 Phaedr|              Our misogamist will not appeal to Anacreon or Sappho for
 111 Phaedr|              pithy sayings, pathetic appeals, sensational effects, and
 112 Phaedr|         qualities which the populace applaud, will send you bowling round
 113 Phaedr|        speaker held up before us and applauded and affirmed to be the author
 114 Phaedr|              even though he have the applause of the whole world.~PHAEDRUS:
 115 Phaedr|              Plato admits of endless applications, if we allow for the difference
 116 Phaedr|           conception of unity really applies in very different degrees
 117 Phaedr|         Instead of losing temper and applying uncomplimentary epithets,
 118 Phaedr|          reader.~...~No one can duly appreciate the dialogues of Plato,
 119 Phaedr|              a twofold difficulty in apprehending this aspect of the Platonic
 120 Phaedr|              of seriousness,’ we may appropriate to ourselves the words of
 121 Phaedr|      arguments can be drawn from the appropriateness or inappropriateness of
 122 Phaedr|         begins with the names of his approvers?~PHAEDRUS: How so?~SOCRATES:
 123 Phaedr|       Socrates is afraid that, if he approves the former, he will be disowned
 124 Phaedr|              has a lofty neck and an aquiline nose; his colour is white,
 125 Phaedr|           greater goods. Socrates or Archilochus would soon have to sing
 126 Phaedr|        subject; and I, like the nine Archons, will promise to set up
 127 Phaedr|             story she was taken from Areopagus, and not from this place.
 128 Phaedr|            He is. And he who employs aright these memories is ever being
 129 Phaedr|              madness’? That seems to arise out of the antithesis to
 130 Phaedr|        friends, for our love of them arises not from passion, but from
 131 Phaedr|              of his belonging to the aristocratical, as Lysias to the democratical
 132 Phaedr|             or semi-rational soul of Aristotle. And thus, for the first
 133 Phaedr|       inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry
 134 Phaedr|       understands not;—he throws his arms round the lover and embraces
 135 Phaedr|         originality, or any power of arousing the interest of later ages.
 136 Phaedr|            different natures, and to arrange and dispose them in such
 137 Phaedr|          tragedy is anything but the arranging of these elements in a manner
 138 Phaedr|              But I seem to hear them arraying themselves on the opposite
 139 Phaedr|           wide world. And now having arrived, I intend to lie down, and
 140 Phaedr|        interest. The hour of payment arrives, and now he is the servant
 141 Phaedr|             the beautiful one; there arriving and quickening the passages
 142 Phaedr|           you cross to the temple of Artemis, and there is, I think,
 143 Phaedr|            with the pulsations of an artery, pricks the aperture which
 144 Phaedr|        making many books, of writing articles in reviews, some have desired
 145 Phaedr|           the seventh the life of an artisan or husbandman; to the eighth
 146 Phaedr|         feast of the gods, when they ascend the heights of the empyrean—
 147 Phaedr|         divine and human, and try to ascertain the truth about them. The
 148 Phaedr|              knowledge. It had grown ascetic on one side, mystical on
 149 Phaedr|            PHAEDRUS: Hippocrates the Asclepiad says that the nature even
 150 Phaedr|            of old. Would he not have asked of us, or rather is he not
 151 Phaedr|              us, or rather is he not asking of us, Whether we have ceased
 152 Phaedr|         compare Symp.); in these two aspects of philosophy the technicalities
 153 Phaedr|            an acquired opinion which aspires after the best; and these
 154 Phaedr|         possibly, you think that his assailant was in earnest?~PHAEDRUS:
 155 Phaedr|             if out of complaisance I assented to you.~PHAEDRUS: Who are
 156 Phaedr|            At the same time I boldly assert that mere knowledge of the
 157 Phaedr|           none. All of them agree in asserting that a speech should end
 158 Phaedr|              or, in other words, the assertion of the essentially moral
 159 Phaedr|        chance in human life, and yet asserts the freedom and responsibility
 160 Phaedr|              also afford grounds for assigning a later date. (Compare Tim.,
 161 Phaedr|             time to time without the assistance of the courts. Besides,
 162 Phaedr|              nature, but may also be assisted by art. If you have the
 163 Phaedr|              profitable guardian and associate for him in all that relates
 164 Phaedr|           the human minds which were associated with them, in the past and
 165 Phaedr|           those who refuse to be his associates, thinking that their favourite
 166 Phaedr|              physician who can alone assuage the greatness of his pain.
 167 Phaedr|            our two discourses, alike assumed, first of all, a single
 168 Phaedr|              the Platonic philosophy assumes, are not like the images
 169 Phaedr|               invoking the Muses and assuming ironically the person of
 170 Phaedr|               PHAEDRUS: That is most assuredly my desire and prayer.~SOCRATES:
 171 Phaedr|         calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but
 172 Phaedr|           freedom, which is the true atmosphere of public speaking, in oratory.
 173 Phaedr|             away until I had made an atonement. Now I am a diviner, though
 174 Phaedr|         loves of women before we can attach any serious meaning to his
 175 Phaedr|              As little weight can be attached to the argument that Plato
 176 Phaedr|          greatest happiness which is attainable by man—they continue masters
 177 Phaedr|                or at any rate to his attainment of wealth or power; but
 178 Phaedr|         Destiny, that the soul which attains any vision of truth in company
 179 Phaedr|      although human nature has often attempted to represent outwardly what
 180 Phaedr|              they will love you, and attend you, and come about your
 181 Phaedr|         dawdling at home, or dancing attendance upon them; or withdraw you
 182 Phaedr|         lover who is taken to be the attendant of Zeus is better able to
 183 Phaedr|            you may lead me all round Attica, and over the wide world.
 184 Phaedr|              of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you
 185 Phaedr|              instinct, rejects these attractive interpretations; he regards
 186 Phaedr|             the self-motive is to be attributed to God only; and on the
 187 Phaedr|              to truth and falsehood, attributing to Him every species of
 188 Phaedr|              perfect and august than augury, both in name and fact,
 189 Phaedr|         mantike) is more perfect and august than augury, both in name
 190 Phaedr|            the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Julian, in some of the
 191 Phaedr|            rested upon tradition and authority. It had none of the higher
 192 Phaedr|            PHAEDRUS: If trying would avail, then I might; but at the
 193 Phaedr|             one who is far above the average in natural capacity, but
 194 Phaedr|     principles and of true ideas? We avowedly follow not the truth but
 195 Phaedr|      infinity of nature will tend to awaken in men larger and more liberal
 196 Phaedr|              there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyrical and all other numbers;
 197 Phaedr|       namesake, and instead of being awed at the sight of her, he
 198 Phaedr|           the more, and if, like the Bacchic Nymphs, they draw inspiration
 199 Phaedr|             of a single man, such as Bacon or Newton, formerly produced.
 200 Phaedr|              in what the goodness or badness of either consists, and
 201 Phaedr|             fight, and he will carry baggage or anything.’~PHAEDRUS:
 202 Phaedr|          speech is composed ‘in that balanced style in which the wise
 203 Phaedr|           with the rest of the happy band they saw beauty shining
 204 Phaedr|      demi-gods, marshalled in eleven bands; Hestia alone abides at
 205 Phaedr|              he will be compelled to banish from him divine philosophy;
 206 Phaedr|              of good taste should be banished, and which were far enough
 207 Phaedr|           choir. But when they go to banquet and festival, then they
 208 Phaedr|          refreshing their souls with banqueting and the like, this will
 209 Phaedr|           Greek world became vacant, barbaric, oriental. No one had anything
 210 Phaedr|           but with forehead bold and bare.~PHAEDRUS: Nothing could
 211 Phaedr|          should be too ‘abstract and barren of illustrations.’ (Compare
 212 Phaedr|             back like a racer at the barrier, and with a still more violent
 213 Phaedr|         again from the philosophical basis which has been laid down,
 214 Phaedr|    honourable nor creditable, to the bearer of the name. The desire
 215 Phaedr|             statue you shall have of beaten gold, and take your place
 216 Phaedr|               and then we beheld the beatific vision and were initiated
 217 Phaedr|             Socrates is exhibited as beating the rhetoricians at their
 218 Phaedr|             was a recantation, which began thus,—~‘False is that word
 219 Phaedr|            he rushes on to enjoy and beget; he consorts with wantonness,
 220 Phaedr|            pleasures, and similarity begets friendship; yet you may
 221 Phaedr|             not your friend, but the beggar and the empty soul; for
 222 Phaedr|          when the lover of discourse begged that he would repeat the
 223 Phaedr|       preparing to go away.~Phaedrus begs him to remain, at any rate
 224 Phaedr|             the manner of his God he behaves in his intercourse with
 225 Phaedr|           are always searching for a belief and deploring our unbelief,
 226 Phaedr|            the received opinions and beliefs of mankind. We cannot separate
 227 Phaedr|              the circumstance of his belonging to the aristocratical, as
 228 Phaedr|            knew his character or his belongings; so that when their passion
 229 Phaedr|           lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love
 230 Phaedr|             and he would be a public benefactor. For my part, I do so long
 231 Phaedr|         might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them,
 232 Phaedr|           slighted by the latter and benefited by the former; for more
 233 Phaedr|              of writing speeches and bequeathing them to posterity. And they
 234 Phaedr|              never noticed it; but I beseech you to tell me, Socrates,
 235 Phaedr|        granting favours to those who besiege you with prayer, but to
 236 Phaedr|              have a purgation. And I bethink me of an ancient purgation
 237 Phaedr|               a great many epigrams, biographies of the meanest and most
 238 Phaedr|              the reason, or that the black horse is the symbol of the
 239 Phaedr|      discretion of the non-lover and blaming the indiscretion of the
 240 Phaedr|           sing a palinode for having blasphemed the majesty of love. His
 241 Phaedr|            by Socrates as sinful and blasphemous towards the god Love, and
 242 Phaedr|             love”? O God, forgive my blasphemy. This is not love. Rather
 243 Phaedr|       PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES: Bless me, what a wonderfully mysterious
 244 Phaedr|            But the corrupted nature, blindly excited by this vision of
 245 Phaedr|           they honour. Thus fair and blissful to the beloved is the desire
 246 Phaedr|      families, owing to some ancient blood-guiltiness, there madness has entered
 247 Phaedr|           colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion (Or with grey
 248 Phaedr|         complexion (Or with grey and blood-shot eyes.); the mate of insolence
 249 Phaedr|             those who will enjoy the bloom of your youth, but to those
 250 Phaedr|             who will hardly yield to blow or spur. Together all three,
 251 Phaedr|             of the pricks and of the blows of the whip, plunges and
 252 Phaedr|       SOCRATES: Therefore, because I blush at the thought of this person,
 253 Phaedr|             if in former days he has blushed to own his passion and turned
 254 Phaedr|           him as he is of them, will boast to some one of his successes,
 255 Phaedr|       suspicious, less hurtful, less boastful, less engrossing, and because
 256 Phaedr|       considers the natures of their bodies. Such and such persons are
 257 Phaedr|           ashamed, but with forehead bold and bare.~PHAEDRUS: Nothing
 258 Phaedr|         guide. Do you ever cross the border? I rather think that you
 259 Phaedr|             whither they are lightly borne by justice, and there they
 260 Phaedr|             hungry cow before whom a bough or a bunch of fruit is waved.
 261 Phaedr|          partial eclipse, there is a boundless hope in the multitude of
 262 Phaedr|              One brought up in shady bowers and not in the bright sun,
 263 Phaedr|      populace applaud, will send you bowling round the earth during a
 264 Phaedr|              a time there was a fair boy, or, more properly speaking,
 265 Phaedr|             of these wonderful arts, brachylogies and eikonologies and all
 266 Phaedr|             build their nests in the branches.’ There is an echo of this
 267 Phaedr|             who is the father of the brat, and let us have no more
 268 Phaedr|              wise, the coward of the brave, the slow of speech of the
 269 Phaedr|              where the joint is, not breaking any part as a bad carver
 270 Phaedr|         having with difficulty taken breath, is full of wrath and reproaches,
 271 Phaedr|              and mightiest woes have bred in certain families, owing
 272 Phaedr|           There are shade and gentle breezes, and grass on which we may
 273 Phaedr|           the pain is over which the bridle and the fall had given him,
 274 Phaedr|             Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears
 275 Phaedr|           they saw beauty shining in brightness,—we philosophers following
 276 Phaedr|        himself, I desire to wash the brine out of my ears with water
 277 Phaedr|              new shudder’ instead of bringing to the birth living and
 278 Phaedr|          follows:—~‘I am a maiden of bronze and lie on the tomb of Midas;
 279 Phaedr|           study philosophy, like his brother Polemarchus; and then his
 280 Phaedr|              to pleasure, and like a brutish beast he rushes on to enjoy
 281 Phaedr|           the time of cutting teeth,—bubbles up, and has a feeling of
 282 Phaedr|            and ‘the birds of the air build their nests in the branches.’
 283 Phaedr|             before whom a bough or a bunch of fruit is waved. For only
 284 Phaedr|          before the eyes of Dante or Bunyan? Surely the latter. But
 285 Phaedr|             and can endure a heavier burden; but the attendants and
 286 Phaedr|           says not a word, for he is bursting with passion which he understands
 287 Phaedr|           words of Pindar, ‘than any business’?~PHAEDRUS: Will you go
 288 Phaedr|              that I persuaded you to buy a horse and go to the wars.
 289 Phaedr|             I feared that I might be buying honour from men at the price
 290 Phaedr| probabilities are to come; the great Byzantian word-maker also speaks,
 291 Phaedr|       Sibylline books, Orphic poems, Byzantine imitations of classical
 292 Phaedr|           They will not be ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’ within a
 293 Phaedr|            delight in the harmonious cadence and the pedantic reasoning
 294 Phaedr|             a bird eager to quit its cage, she flutters and looks
 295 Phaedr|               such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy
 296 Phaedr|        hitherto been in the habit of calling dialecticians; but God knows
 297 Phaedr|           ways of honouring them;—of Calliope the eldest Muse and of Urania
 298 Phaedr|              in his breast, which he calls and believes to be not love
 299 Phaedr|              innocent and simple and calm and happy, which we beheld
 300 Phaedr|             disposing of any sort of calumny on any grounds or none.
 301 Phaedr|         above the average in natural capacity, but the seed which is in
 302 Phaedr|             possible good?~SOCRATES: Capital. But will you tell me whether
 303 Phaedr|              state of existence. The capriciousness of love is also derived
 304 Phaedr|       equally unmeaning. Phaedrus is captivated with the beauty of the periods,
 305 Phaedr|             Now the beloved is taken captive in the following manner:—~
 306 Phaedr|     mysteries of true love, if he be captured by the lover and their purpose
 307 Phaedr|         regaled him, and which he is carrying about in his mind, or more
 308 Phaedr|           images, whether painted or carved, or described in words only,
 309 Phaedr|           breaking any part as a bad carver might. Just as our two discourses,
 310 Phaedr|              say also that there are cases in which the actual facts,
 311 Phaedr|         according to you he would be casting a slur upon his own favourite
 312 Phaedr|             he makes reflections and casts sly imputation upon the
 313 Phaedr|            plane-tree, and the agnus castus high and clustering, in
 314 Phaedr|           ages thought and felt. The Catholic faith had degenerated into
 315 Phaedr|              is with the lover, both cease from their pain, but when
 316 Phaedr|              is moved by another, in ceasing to move ceases also to live.
 317 Phaedr|           manikins of earth and gain celebrity among them. Wherefore I
 318 Phaedr|           and another life seemed to centre. To him abstractions, as
 319 Phaedr|              that there is any great certainty and clearness in his performance,
 320 Phaedr|              which shall prove that ‘ceteris paribus’ the lover ought
 321 Phaedr|            no one is better than the Chalcedonian giant; he can put a whole
 322 Phaedr|           their foolish fondness has changed into mutual dislike. In
 323 Phaedr|             of a system there is the Chaos of Anaxagoras (omou panta
 324 Phaedr|          love their loves.’ (Compare Char.) Here is the end; the ‘
 325 Phaedr|           love to talk’ (Symp.). The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity,
 326 Phaedr|          examination of rhetoric, he characterizes it as a ‘partly true and
 327 Phaedr|       perhaps he might more severely chastise some of us for trying to
 328 Phaedr|        highest education through the cheap press, and by the help of
 329 Phaedr|           fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’
 330 Phaedr|          gift, and the source of the chiefest blessings granted to men.
 331 Phaedr|              of the recollections of childhood might float about them still;
 332 Phaedr|             like him to be wifeless, childless, homeless, as well; and
 333 Phaedr|       rehabilitate Hippocentaurs and chimeras dire. Gorgons and winged
 334 Phaedr|            no place in the celestial choir. But when they go to banquet
 335 Phaedr|         earthly existence. Every one chooses his love from the ranks
 336 Phaedr|            which makes answer to the chorus of the cicadae. But the
 337 Phaedr|            of Anaxagoras (omou panta chremata) and no Mind or Order. Then
 338 Phaedr|             What would he say of the Church, which we praise in like
 339 Phaedr|             follows:-~(Translated by Cic. Tus. Quaest.) The soul
 340 Phaedr|          answer to the chorus of the cicadae. But the greatest charm
 341 Phaedr|     therefore if the way is long and circuitous, marvel not at this, for,
 342 Phaedr|             again will grow up under circumstances far more favourable to the
 343 Phaedr|         collect’ which has just been cited, ‘Give me beauty,’ etc.;
 344 Phaedr|            Athens and in other Greek cities; or that friendships between
 345 Phaedr|     particular notice: (1) the locus classicus about mythology; (2) the
 346 Phaedr|            SOCRATES: Thirdly, having classified men and speeches, and their
 347 Phaedr|            monotonous parallelism of clauses. There is more rhythm than
 348 Phaedr|      right-hand horse is upright and cleanly made; he has a lofty neck
 349 Phaedr|         should be too glad to have a clearer description if art could
 350 Phaedr|             in clearness through the clearest aperture of sense. For sight
 351 Phaedr|            forces the bit out of the clenched teeth of the brute, and
 352 Phaedr|            measure of his abilities, clinging in recollection to those
 353 Phaedr|              him; their recollection clings to him, and they become
 354 Phaedr|      enamoured of their own literary clique and have but a feeble sympathy
 355 Phaedr|              than to be shut up in a cloister.~SOCRATES: There he is right.
 356 Phaedr|              which had been hitherto closed and rigid, and had prevented
 357 Phaedr|            the outward nature of the clouds or darkness which were spread
 358 Phaedr|          himself has given the right clue when, in using his own discourse
 359 Phaedr|            the agnus castus high and clustering, in the fullest blossom
 360 Phaedr|             results of the past. The co-operation of many may have effects
 361 Phaedr|            plane-tree is deliciously cold to the feet. Judging from
 362 Phaedr|       heavens and all creation would collapse and stand still, and never
 363 Phaedr|               such as the prayer or ‘collect’ which has just been cited, ‘
 364 Phaedr|             help of high schools and colleges, may increase tenfold. It
 365 Phaedr|           and take your place by the colossal offerings of the Cypselids
 366 Phaedr|             describing the spiritual combat, in which the rational soul
 367 Phaedr|      conditions may lead to many new combinations of thought and language.
 368 Phaedr|             scholia, of extracts, of commentaries, forgeries, imitations.
 369 Phaedr|           forgeries, imitations. The commentator or interpreter had no conception
 370 Phaedr|           sometimes imposed upon his commentators. The introduction of a considerable
 371 Phaedr|              not confined, as people commonly suppose, to arguments in
 372 Phaedr|           their god; and to him they communicate the nature which they have
 373 Phaedr|              and nobility taught and communicated orally for the sake of instruction
 374 Phaedr|              that every nation holds communication with every other, we may
 375 Phaedr|         belong. In this instance the comparative favour shown to Isocrates
 376 Phaedr|         Dialogue was written at some comparatively late but unknown period
 377 Phaedr|          nursery rhyme. With this he compares the regular divisions of
 378 Phaedr|          Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with
 379 Phaedr|           give no pain to others; he compels the successful lover to
 380 Phaedr|              partly because they are compensated by greater goods. Socrates
 381 Phaedr|      ridiculous it would be of me to compete with Lysias in an extempore
 382 Phaedr|            strong man like him?’ The complainant will not like to confess
 383 Phaedr|       judgment against me, if out of complaisance I assented to you.~PHAEDRUS:
 384 Phaedr|    millennium; the remainder have to complete a cycle of ten thousand
 385 Phaedr|             loftiness of thought and completeness of execution. And this,
 386 Phaedr|            circumstance, that at the completion of ten thousand years all
 387 Phaedr|              grey eyes and blood-red complexion (Or with grey and blood-shot
 388 Phaedr|          myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion
 389 Phaedr|              have more sense than to comply with his desire, you will
 390 Phaedr|             age spent a long time in composing. Indeed, I cannot; I would
 391 Phaedr|           things into classes and to comprehend them under single ideas,
 392 Phaedr|           are free and not under any compulsion, no time of repentance ever
 393 Phaedr|              of Greek literature was concealed a soul thrilling with spiritual
 394 Phaedr|              is more permanent, more concentrated, and is uttered not to this
 395 Phaedr|             an erring fancy, but the concentration of reason in feeling, the
 396 Phaedr|           about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance
 397 Phaedr|         willing to hazard a prophecy concerning him.~PHAEDRUS: What would
 398 Phaedr|             have neglected their own concerns and rendered service to
 399 Phaedr|             the same wings.~Socrates concludes:—~These are the blessings
 400 Phaedr|           fundamental error which we condemn in others; but as our question
 401 Phaedr|          condemns them both. Yet the condemnation is not to be taken seriously,
 402 Phaedr|           Both speeches are strongly condemned by Socrates as sinful and
 403 Phaedr|           model of the preceding, he condemns them both. Yet the condemnation
 404 Phaedr|           master of both the steeds, condescends to allow any indulgence
 405 Phaedr|             in the way which is most conducive to their own interest. Then
 406 Phaedr|          dependent on their own good conduct in the successive stages
 407 Phaedr|         plane-tree to which you were conducting us?~PHAEDRUS: Yes, this
 408 Phaedr|              they do all they can to confirm such a nature in him, and
 409 Phaedr|     tasteless insertion. And this is confirmed by the name which was given
 410 Phaedr|             real art is always being confused by rhetoricians with the
 411 Phaedr|           the preliminaries of Art,’ confusing Art the expression of mind
 412 Phaedr|              the Cratylus and Io, he connects with madness by an etymological
 413 Phaedr|           masters of themselves, and conquer in one of the three heavenly
 414 Phaedr|            leads us to the best, the conquering principle is called temperance;
 415 Phaedr|             he has done penance. His conscious has been awakened, and like
 416 Phaedr|              nature of rhetoric, and consequently suppose that they have found
 417 Phaedr|  commentators. The introduction of a considerable writing of another would
 418 Phaedr|             all’ (Symp.) without any consideration of His real nature and character
 419 Phaedr|          women famous, from domestic considerations. Too late their eyes are
 420 Phaedr|             s souls as the physician considers the natures of their bodies.
 421 Phaedr|             I ‘to dumb forgetfulness consign’ Tisias and Gorgias, who
 422 Phaedr|   superiority of his speech seems to consist chiefly in a better arrangement
 423 Phaedr|            lower as time went on. It consisted more and more of compilations,
 424 Phaedr|           the details are not always consistent. When the charioteers and
 425 Phaedr|            him. But what pleasure or consolation can the beloved be receiving
 426 Phaedr|            on to enjoy and beget; he consorts with wantonness, and is
 427 Phaedr|         century before the taking of Constantinople, much more was in existence
 428 Phaedr|             study of the natures and constitutions of human beings? Do we see
 429 Phaedr|           And so he runs away and is constrained to be a defaulter; the oyster-shell (
 430 Phaedr|              equally self-moving and constructed on the same threefold principle?
 431 Phaedr|         search after justice and the construction of the ideal state; the
 432 Phaedr|             I expect the patient who consults me to be able to do these
 433 Phaedr|               And now their bliss is consummated; the same image of love
 434 Phaedr|          than the lover at the final consummation of their love, seems likewise
 435 Phaedr|              he is forced into daily contact with his lover; moreover
 436 Phaedr|           The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of
 437 Phaedr|          other rising above them and contemplating with religious awe the forms
 438 Phaedr|      doctrine of transmigration, the contemplative nature of the philosophic
 439 Phaedr|              law court— are they not contending?~PHAEDRUS: Exactly so.~SOCRATES:
 440 Phaedr|             last obliged, after much contention, to turn away and leave
 441 Phaedr|               and very little of the context of any passage which he
 442 Phaedr|    distinction between necessary and contingent matter; (6) The conception
 443 Phaedr|             wider area, but from the continuance of it during many generations.
 444 Phaedr|           over the written word. The continuous thread which appears and
 445 Phaedr|         would willingly enter into a contract at first sight, almost without
 446 Phaedr|          Platonic Dialogues, seem to contradict the notion that it could
 447 Phaedr|             as might be expected, in contradicting one another and themselves.
 448 Phaedr|              opinions unverified and contradictory to unpopular truths which
 449 Phaedr|            extreme of commonplace is contrasted with the most ideal and
 450 Phaedr|            says that he is unable to control himself? And if he came
 451 Phaedr|              There are two principal controversies which have been raised about
 452 Phaedr|          from the yoke of custom and convention.~PHAEDRUS: True.~SOCRATES:
 453 Phaedr|               are first the false or conventional art of rhetoric; secondly,
 454 Phaedr|            love corresponding to the conventionalities of rhetoric; secondly, of
 455 Phaedr|               like the many, are not conversing, but slumbering at mid-day,
 456 Phaedr|           and were bidden by them to convey a message to him and to
 457 Phaedr|           have either a heating or a cooling effect, and I can give a
 458 Phaedr|           her wings!~The wing is the corporeal element which is most akin
 459 Phaedr|              SOCRATES: Yes, rules of correct diction and many other fine
 460 Phaedr|     detection of the Sophist and the correlation of ideas. The Theaetetus,
 461 Phaedr|      Republic. The two steeds really correspond in a figure more nearly
 462 Phaedr|            first, of interested love corresponding to the conventionalities
 463 Phaedr|         unrighteousness through some corrupting influence, they may have
 464 Phaedr|       twenty-three years of age. The cosmological notion of the mind as the
 465 Phaedr|           ideas, if they had visible counterparts, would be equally lovely.
 466 Phaedr|    Shakespeare, returning to earth, ‘courteously rebuke’ us—would he not
 467 Phaedr|      composition. You may say that a courtesan is hurtful, and disapprove
 468 Phaedr|              new waters may flow and cover the earth. If at any time
 469 Phaedr|           the country, like a hungry cow before whom a bough or a
 470 Phaedr|              like to confess his own cowardice, and will therefore invent
 471 Phaedr|          have assaulted a strong and cowardly one, and to have robbed
 472 Phaedr|             is mighty disagreeable; ‘crabbed age and youth cannot live
 473 Phaedr|             whose feet you have sat, craftily conceal the nature of the
 474 Phaedr|        seventh, into a husbandman or craftsman; the eighth, into a sophist
 475 Phaedr|           higher play of fancy which creates poetry; and where there
 476 Phaedr|             to have lost the gift of creating them. Can we wonder that
 477 Phaedr|               and disapprove of such creatures and their practices, and
 478 Phaedr|               neither honourable nor creditable, to the bearer of the name.
 479 Phaedr|             suns.’ They will not be ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’
 480 Phaedr|               or in any of the great crises of life, will be the anxiety
 481 Phaedr|              originals’...~The chief criteria for determining the date
 482 Phaedr|              cannot be tested by any criterion of truth, or used to establish
 483 Phaedr|          would suspect that the wise Critias, the virtuous Charmides,
 484 Phaedr|   superficial manner of some ancient critics, that a dialogue which treats
 485 Phaedr|      admonition only. The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together
 486 Phaedr|            probability, this sort of crude philosophy will take up
 487 Phaedr|             will provide elements of culture to the West as well as the
 488 Phaedr|              inscription says; to be curious about that which is not
 489 Phaedr|             the lover’s heart, and a curse to himself. Verily, a lover
 490 Phaedr|            the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.~PHAEDRUS:
 491 Phaedr|         remainder have to complete a cycle of ten thousand years before
 492 Phaedr|            colossal offerings of the Cypselids at Olympia.~SOCRATES: How
 493 Phaedr|    detestable when he is forced into daily contact with his lover;
 494 Phaedr|          love of Terpsichore for the dancers by their report of them;
 495 Phaedr|             you dawdling at home, or dancing attendance upon them; or
 496 Phaedr|          opinion that there is small danger of this; the politicians
 497 Phaedr|          such as flatterers, who are dangerous and mischievous enough,
 498 Phaedr|              time before the eyes of Dante or Bunyan? Surely the latter.
 499 Phaedr|              as Lycurgus or Solon or Darius had, of attaining an immortality
 500 Phaedr|             and, like you, my divine darling, I became inspired with