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1001 Phaedr| Pharmacia, when a northern gust carried her over the neighbouring
1002 Phaedr| money-maker; the fourth, into a gymnast; the fifth, into a prophet
1003 Phaedr| upper region, which is the habitation of the gods. The divine
1004 Phaedr| thought that you were only half-way and were going to make a
1005 Phaedr| Phaedrus will no longer halt between two opinions, but
1006 Phaedr| this, he will be unable to handle arguments according to rules
1007 Phaedr| been getting too roughly handled by us, and she might answer:
1008 Phaedr| Yes; and the two speeches happen to afford a very good example
1009 Phaedr| highest and lowest note; happening to meet such an one he would
1010 Phaedr| be the name of that which happens to be dominant. And now
1011 Phaedr| of the brute, and pulling harder than ever at the reins,
1012 Phaedr| with evil,—what will be the harvest which rhetoric will be likely
1013 | hast
1014 Phaedr| repetitions and other marks of haste. He cannot agree with Phaedrus
1015 Phaedr| beloved, and will rather hate those who refuse to be his
1016 Phaedr| former; for more love than hatred may be expected to come
1017 Phaedr| Phaedrus; but I am willing to hazard a prophecy concerning him.~
1018 Phaedr| to the birth living and healthy creations? These he would
1019 Phaedr| There is nothing left but a heap of ‘ologies’ and other technical
1020 Phaedr| and reproaches, which he heaps upon the charioteer and
1021 Phaedr| indisposed; although, if the hearer had refused, he would sooner
1022 Phaedr| which shall have either a heating or a cooling effect, and
1023 Phaedr| who have once begun the heavenward pilgrimage may not go down
1024 Phaedr| winged god, and can endure a heavier burden; but the attendants
1025 Phaedr| for the vicious steed goes heavily, weighing down the charioteer
1026 Phaedr| beloved; but the other, heedless of the pricks and of the
1027 Phaedr| obscene romances of Longus and Heliodorus, innumerable forged epistles,
1028 Phaedr| whether you think that any Hellene could have said more or
1029 Phaedr| of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and
1030 Phaedr| public duties, they are not helpers but hinderers of one another:
1031 Phaedr| woman being the intellectual helpmate or friend of man (except
1032 Phaedr| between them. And allegory helps to increase this sort of
1033 | hereafter
1034 | hereby
1035 Phaedr| Achelous and Pan the son of Hermes, who inspired me, were far
1036 Phaedr| reached the wall come back, as Herodicus recommends, without going
1037 Phaedr| myriad actions of ancient heroes for the instruction of posterity.
1038 Phaedr| out of dithyrambics into heroics, when only uttering a censure
1039 Phaedr| women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sappho, Aeschylus
1040 Phaedr| other vox Dei, he might hesitate to attack them; or he might
1041 Phaedr| the life of a prophet or hierophant; to the sixth the character
1042 Phaedr| despising, or rather so highly do they value the practice
1043 Phaedr| from the town of Desire (Himera), and is to the following
1044 Phaedr| and she is sorely let and hindered by the animal desires of
1045 Phaedr| SOCRATES: Then there is Hippias the Elean stranger, who
1046 Phaedr| must go on and rehabilitate Hippocentaurs and chimeras dire. Gorgons
1047 Phaedr| imitations of classical histories, Christian reproductions
1048 Phaedr| not.~PHAEDRUS: You have hit upon a very good way.~SOCRATES:
1049 Phaedr| generation. Now that every nation holds communication with every
1050 Phaedr| seem to be a great many holes in their web.~PHAEDRUS:
1051 Phaedr| his dearest and best and holiest possessions, father, mother,
1052 Phaedr| be wifeless, childless, homeless, as well; and the longer
1053 Phaedr| refreshing; having no truth or honesty in them, nevertheless they
1054 Phaedr| dislike. In the days of their honeymoon they never understood that
1055 Phaedr| ever will be anything more honoured in the eyes both of gods
1056 Phaedr| according to the several ways of honouring them;—of Calliope the eldest
1057 Phaedr| words and things. It was so hopelessly below the ancient standard
1058 Phaedr| good and truth, all the hopes of this and another life
1059 Phaedr| pretended to be something, hoping to succeed in deceiving
1060 Phaedr| ceased to be written, why did hosts of grammarians and interpreters
1061 Phaedr| speaking? While the sun is hot in the sky above us, let
1062 Phaedr| to sow his seed in such a hot-bed or garden of Adonis; he
1063 Phaedr| warrior; the third, into a householder or money-maker; the fourth,
1064 Phaedr| luxurious diet, instead of the hues of health having the colours
1065 Phaedr| to satisfy his own wild humour, takes the disguise of Lysias,
1066 Phaedr| anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for
1067 Phaedr| into the country, like a hungry cow before whom a bough
1068 Phaedr| liveliness of Socrates, which hurries him into verse and relieves
1069 Phaedr| fitting soil, and practises husbandry, and is satisfied if in
1070 Phaedr| to that of which by the hypothesis he is ignorant?~PHAEDRUS:
1071 Phaedr| the gods are both white, i.e. their every impulse is in
1072 Phaedr| bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he
1073 Phaedr| of misgiving, and, like Ibycus, ‘I was troubled; I feared
1074 Phaedr| inspiration, or imagination, or idealism, or communion with God,
1075 Phaedr| principle— not losing the ideals of justice and holiness
1076 Phaedr| latter. But it would be idle to reconcile all the details
1077 Phaedr| truth; and secondly, as ignoring the distinction between
1078 Phaedr| or thought that he was ill-advised about his own interests.~‘
1079 Phaedr| fierce conflict begins. The ill-conditioned steed rushes on to enjoy,
1080 Phaedr| one of this class, however ill-disposed, would reproach Lysias with
1081 Phaedr| wings broken through the ill-driving of the charioteers; and
1082 Phaedr| truth, and through some ill-hap sinks beneath the double
1083 Phaedr| admonition only, the other an ill-looking villain who will hardly
1084 Phaedr| not forget order, is an illustration of the higher or true rhetoric.
1085 Phaedr| ought also to mention the illustrious Parian, Evenus, who first
1086 Phaedr| triple soul which is thus imaged. There is no difficulty
1087 Phaedr| with the most ideal and imaginative of speculations. Socrates,
1088 Phaedr| do to their beloved, have imagined that our ideas of love were
1089 Phaedr| happened to know. He was thus imbued with the higher philosophy,
1090 Phaedr| found him, they themselves imitate their god, and persuade
1091 Phaedr| impression lasts, honours and imitates him, as far as he is able;
1092 Phaedr| character of poet or some other imitative artist will be assigned;
1093 Phaedr| the sixth, into a poet or imitator; the seventh, into a husbandman
1094 Phaedr| exacting or exclusive, is not impaired by familiarity, is much
1095 Phaedr| over our heads may have imparted their inspiration to me.
1096 Phaedr| and to make physicians by imparting this knowledge to others,’—
1097 Phaedr| their large fortunes, their impatience of argument, their indifference
1098 Phaedr| marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which
1099 Phaedr| that I had been guilty of impiety, and that I must not go
1100 Phaedr| say,—to a certain extent, impious; can anything be more dreadful?~
1101 Phaedr| such is the view which is implied in the whole preceding argument.~
1102 Phaedr| Lysias ‘a thing of higher import,’ as I may say in the words
1103 Phaedr| matter of such infinite importance, can a man be right in trusting
1104 Phaedr| of the rhetoricians newly imported from Sicily, which had ceased
1105 Phaedr| gravity of Plato has sometimes imposed upon his commentators. The
1106 Phaedr| as the city on which he imposes is ignorant; and having
1107 Phaedr| seeing in his own age the impossibility of woman being the intellectual
1108 Phaedr| be not only tedious but impossible, we at once pass on to describe
1109 Phaedr| follow him with passion and imprecation, not knowing that he ought
1110 Phaedr| Symposium, there is great improbability in supposing that one of
1111 Phaedr| be said of propriety and impropriety of writing.~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~
1112 Phaedr| he who does righteously improves, and he who does unrighteously,
1113 Phaedr| and they will be far more improving to your mind. They will
1114 Phaedr| irony than usual. Having improvised his own speech, which is
1115 Phaedr| their course by the furious impulses of desire. In the end something
1116 Phaedr| kind of madness, which is imputed to him who, when he sees
1117 Phaedr| range of human faculties, or inaccessible to the knowledge of the
1118 Phaedr| totality has the care of inanimate being everywhere, and traverses
1119 Phaedr| himself, and censures equally inappropriate, which are intolerable when
1120 Phaedr| from the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the characters of Plato. (
1121 Phaedr| no great writers. It was incapable of distinguishing between
1122 Phaedr| wings, watering them and inclining them to grow, and filling
1123 Phaedr| disputation, under which are included both the rules of Gorgias
1124 Phaedr| really a general idea which includes both, and in which the sensual
1125 Phaedr| guide.~PHAEDRUS: What an incomprehensible being you are, Socrates:
1126 Phaedr| apace, and numberless other inconceivable and portentous natures.
1127 Phaedr| expresses; and is full of inconsistencies and ambiguities which were
1128 Phaedr| the Charmides, in reality inconsistent with the sterner rule which
1129 Phaedr| for heaven might have increased it; but now their foolish
1130 Phaedr| refinements of life; it increases its dulness and grossness.
1131 Phaedr| improvement of the mind. The increasing sense of the greatness and
1132 Phaedr| over the world in all their indelicacy and wearisomeness when he
1133 Phaedr| unbegotten, it must also be indestructible; for if beginning were destroyed,
1134 Phaedr| Secondly, there seems to be indicated a natural yearning of the
1135 Phaedr| like the Phaedrus, which indicates so much more than it expresses;
1136 Phaedr| impatience of argument, their indifference to first principles, their
1137 Phaedr| joys of love. They at first indignantly oppose him and will not
1138 Phaedr| non-lover and blaming the indiscretion of the lover? These are
1139 Phaedr| indulge all lovers, for the indiscriminate favour is less esteemed
1140 Phaedr| I cannot,’ as if he were indisposed; although, if the hearer
1141 Phaedr| lulled by their voices, too indolent to think? Would they not
1142 Phaedr| feeling of pride may probably induce him to give up writing speeches.~
1143 Phaedr| them in such matters. Two inexperienced persons, ignorant of the
1144 Phaedr| master; instead of love and infatuation, wisdom and temperance are
1145 Phaedr| appears to have caught the infection of blindness from another;
1146 Phaedr| anything to the accidental inference which would also follow,
1147 Phaedr| employed in reducing him to inferiority. And the ignorant is the
1148 Phaedr| how, in a matter of such infinite importance, can a man be
1149 Phaedr| kinds; one produced by human infirmity, the other was a divine
1150 Phaedr| greater injury which he can inflict upon him than this. He will
1151 Phaedr| that the greatest and most influential statesmen are ashamed of
1152 Phaedr| my stupidity who was my informant.~PHAEDRUS: That is grand:—
1153 Phaedr| faculty mind (nous) and information (istoria) to human thought (
1154 Phaedr| that we are now pretty well informed about the nature of art
1155 Phaedr| and this was the point: he ingeniously proved that the non-lover
1156 Phaedr| Some other touches of inimitable grace and art and of the
1157 Phaedr| into four kinds, prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic, having
1158 Phaedr| to his present, and will injure his old love at the pleasure
1159 Phaedr| animosities, and of the injuries which they do to their beloved,
1160 Phaedr| in water’ with pen and ink, sowing words which can
1161 Phaedr| celebrated by us in our state of innocence, before we had any experience
1162 Phaedr| said by some to have been inscribed on the grave of Midas the
1163 Phaedr| myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about
1164 Phaedr| only a modern and tasteless insertion. And this is confirmed by
1165 Phaedr| Evenus, who first invented insinuations and indirect praises; and
1166 Phaedr| from their extant remains, insipid rhetoric is far more characteristic
1167 Phaedr| characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous
1168 Phaedr| of his lover’s speech did insist on our supposing love to
1169 Phaedr| but again and again;—he insisted on hearing it many times
1170 Phaedr| blood-shot eyes.); the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and
1171 Phaedr| I have shown this of all inspirations to be the noblest and highest
1172 Phaedr| and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyrical
1173 Phaedr| man (except in the rare instances of a Diotima or an Aspasia),
1174 Phaedr| Phaedrus, I shall pause for an instant to ask whether you do not
1175 Phaedr| able to say who were their instructors’—the application of a few
1176 Phaedr| as to using the several instruments of the art effectively,
1177 Phaedr| hope in the multitude of intelligences for future generations.
1178 Phaedr| origin?~SOCRATES: I mean an intelligent word graven in the soul
1179 Phaedr| know the nature of the soul intelligently without knowing the nature
1180 Phaedr| the written word would be intelligible or certain; or who deemed
1181 Phaedr| victory of the irrational intemperance or excess. The latter takes
1182 Phaedr| And now having arrived, I intend to lie down, and do you
1183 Phaedr| under his cloak, and is intending to study as he walks. The
1184 Phaedr| honour them on earth, Plato intends to represent an Athenian
1185 Phaedr| once able to imagine the intense power which abstract ideas
1186 Phaedr| have been compelled to gaze intensely on him; their recollection
1187 Phaedr| he on the same thoughts intent, forces them to draw near
1188 Phaedr| offences I shall forgive, and intentional ones I shall try to prevent;
1189 Phaedr| shoots dry up and close, and intercept the germ of the wing; which,
1190 Phaedr| latent always remains. The intermediate sentimentalism, which has
1191 Phaedr| waste or dead level, or interminable marsh, in which Greek literature
1192 Phaedr| and country; and we can interpret him by analogy with reference
1193 Phaedr| similar passages should be interpreted by the Laws. Nor is there
1194 Phaedr| on real difficulties. He interprets past ages by his own. The
1195 Phaedr| after a time at no long intervals, first one and then the
1196 Phaedr| received him into communion and intimacy, is quite amazed at the
1197 Phaedr| given to many an one many an intimation of the future which has
1198 Phaedr| pilgrim’s progress. Other intimations of a ‘metaphysic’ or ‘theology’
1199 Phaedr| and mannerisms which they introduce into speech and writing.
1200 Phaedr| may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two
1201 Phaedr| exclusive of the short introductory passage about mythology
1202 Phaedr| the night and day he is intruding upon him; there is the same
1203 Phaedr| judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to
1204 Phaedr| magic, and is first-rate at inventing or disposing of any sort
1205 Phaedr| appealing to the ancient inventors of names (compare Cratylus),
1206 Phaedr| by them to the rational investigation of futurity, whether made
1207 Phaedr| make a feast you should invite not your friend, but the
1208 Phaedr| partner in my revels.’ And he invited him to come and walk with
1209 Phaedr| most grateful, and will invoke many a blessing on your
1210 Phaedr| face and begins.~First, invoking the Muses and assuming ironically
1211 Phaedr| fancies of the hour were involved two principles of which
1212 Phaedr| pervading the Cratylus and Io, he connects with madness
1213 Phaedr| When any one speaks of iron and silver, is not the same
1214 Phaedr| Dialogues, is also more irregular than any other. For insight
1215 Phaedr| I know the word that is irresistible.~SOCRATES: Then don’t say
1216 Phaedr| which may be compared to the irritation and uneasiness in the gums
1217 Phaedr| the images of the prophet Isaiah, or of the Apocalypse, familiar
1218 Phaedr| within a province or an island. The East will provide elements
1219 Phaedr| nous) and information (istoria) to human thought (oiesis)
1220 Phaedr| carried away with them to Italy.~The character of Greek
1221 Phaedr| petty causes of lovers’ jealousies, and of their exceeding
1222 Phaedr| his lover; moreover he is jealously watched and guarded against
1223 Phaedr| natural formation, where the joint is, not breaking any part
1224 Phaedr| meaning, though partly in joke, to show that the ‘non-lover’
1225 Phaedr| emperors Marcus Aurelius and Julian, in some of the Christian
1226 Phaedr| next place he must have a keen eye for the observation
1227 Phaedr| receives through sight, the keenest of our senses, because beauty,
1228 Phaedr| he aiblins might, I dinna ken’). But to suppose this would
1229 Phaedr| all wronged, are ready to kill and put an end to themselves
1230 Phaedr| the lover there is no real kindness; he has an appetite and
1231 Phaedr| any who is willing to make kings of them and to bring gifts
1232 Phaedr| worth all other friends or kinsmen; they have nothing of friendship
1233 Phaedr| wants to see him, touch him, kiss him, embrace him, and probably
1234 Phaedr| not subject to judgment (krisis), for he has never lost
1235 Phaedr| There is reason in the lady’s defence of herself.~SOCRATES:
1236 Phaedr| philosophical basis which has been laid down, he proceeds to show
1237 Phaedr| effort; and many of them are lamed or have their wings broken
1238 Phaedr| into the great European languages, never recovered.~This monotony
1239 Phaedr| Why did poetry droop and languish? Why did history degenerate
1240 Phaedr| again we fall under the lash of Socrates. For do we not
1241 Phaedr| would be at the same time lasting, could be conceived. ‘But
1242 Phaedr| unspoiled and the impression lasts, honours and imitates him,
1243 Phaedr| and literature, unlike the Latin, which has come to life
1244 Phaedr| infinity. I remember Prodicus laughing when I told him of this;
1245 Phaedr| poet or speech-maker or law-maker.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
1246 Phaedr| man’s own bosom, and their lawful descendants take up their
1247 Phaedr| of the same family, but lawfully begotten?~PHAEDRUS: Whom
1248 Phaedr| speaking and writing in lawsuits, and to speaking in public
1249 Phaedr| the cause is great, slowly laying up little wrath— unintentional
1250 Phaedr| sterner rule which Plato lays down in the Laws. At the
1251 Phaedr| fancying that every one is leagued against him. Wherefore also
1252 Phaedr| of shame, refrains from leaping on the beloved; but the
1253 Phaedr| graven in the soul of the learner, which can defend itself,
1254 Phaedr| create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will
1255 Phaedr| pay. Too late the beloved learns, after all his pains and
1256 Phaedr| philosophy of nature which he learnt of Anaxagoras. True rhetoric
1257 Phaedr| approved, then the author leaves the theatre in high delight;
1258 Phaedr| found in them an evil or left-handed love which he justly reviled;
1259 Phaedr| doctrines in these old Greek legends? While acknowledging that
1260 Phaedr| compare Republic). Is not legislation too a sort of literary effort,
1261 Phaedr| friends, the friendship is not lessened by the favours granted;
1262 Phaedr| between the new and old are liable to serious misconstruction,
1263 Phaedr| awaken in men larger and more liberal thoughts. The love of mankind
1264 Phaedr| Each time there is full liberty of choice. The soul of a
1265 Phaedr| them the names of which Licymnius made him a present; they
1266 Phaedr| from a book instead of a life-long study of the natures and
1267 Phaedr| best and is likest to him lifts the head of the charioteer
1268 Phaedr| heaven whither they are lightly borne by justice, and there
1269 Phaedr| follows God best and is likest to him lifts the head of
1270 Phaedr| consummation of their love, seems likewise to hint at a psychological
1271 Phaedr| inclined to mock; there are two lines in the apocryphal writings
1272 Phaedr| oyster in his shell. Let me linger over the memory of scenes
1273 Phaedr| to appear; there are many links of connection which are
1274 Phaedr| I had great pleasure in listening to you.~SOCRATES: Let us
1275 Phaedr| that in courts of law men literally care nothing about truth,
1276 Phaedr| meaning to his words. Had he lived in our times he would have
1277 Phaedr| lesser merit is the greater liveliness of Socrates, which hurries
1278 Phaedr| Under the image of the lively chirruping grasshoppers
1279 Phaedr| routine and trick, not an art. Lo! a Spartan appears, and
1280 Phaedr| sinks beneath the double load of forgetfulness and vice,
1281 Phaedr| discrepancy, however, about the locality; according to another version
1282 Phaedr| particular notice: (1) the locus classicus about mythology; (
1283 Phaedr| love for love (Anteros) lodging in his breast, which he
1284 Phaedr| truths of nature; hence come loftiness of thought and completeness
1285 Phaedr| away then he longs as he is longed for, and has love’s image,
1286 Phaedr| animals the one which has the longest ears.~PHAEDRUS: That would
1287 Phaedr| rest of the souls are also longing after the upper world and
1288 Phaedr| Plutarch, in Lucian, in Longinus, in the Roman emperors Marcus
1289 Phaedr| when he is away then he longs as he is longed for, and
1290 Phaedr| and obscene romances of Longus and Heliodorus, innumerable
1291 Phaedr| got hold of the book, and looked at what he most wanted to
1292 Phaedr| the frame of his discourse loosely and imperfectly, and which
1293 Phaedr| beauty, her constraint is loosened, and she is refreshed, and
1294 Phaedr| temperance are his bosom’s lords; but the beloved has not
1295 Phaedr| you will be the greater loser, and therefore, you will
1296 Phaedr| the reason why the soul loses her wings!~The wing is the
1297 Phaedr| the saying, ‘marriage is a lottery.’ Then he would describe
1298 Phaedr| of beauty, that being the loveliest she is also the most palpable
1299 Phaedr| that is wisdom seen; her loveliness would have been transporting
1300 Phaedr| to pitch the highest and lowest note; happening to meet
1301 Phaedr| has given a diviner and lowlier destiny? But let me ask
1302 Phaedr| East? Only in Plutarch, in Lucian, in Longinus, in the Roman
1303 Phaedr| but slumbering at mid-day, lulled by their voices, too indolent
1304 Phaedr| The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow;
1305 Phaedr| indulgence of unnatural lusts.~Two other thoughts about
1306 Phaedr| beloved; he will train him in luxury, he will keep him out of
1307 Phaedr| orator has the power, as Lycurgus or Solon or Darius had,
1308 Phaedr| in the distance. There, lying down amidst pleasant sounds
1309 Phaedr| them have perished, why the lyric poets have almost wholly
1310 Phaedr| inspiring frenzy, awakens lyrical and all other numbers; with
1311 Phaedr| entire soul is pierced and maddened and pained, and at the recollection
1312 Phaedr| You should rather say ‘madly;’ and madness was the argument
1313 Phaedr| realize in the person of the Madonna. But although human nature
1314 Phaedr| one again by his mighty magic, and is first-rate at inventing
1315 Phaedr| of external greatness and magnificence attended by all the signs
1316 Phaedr| The soul is described in magnificent language as the self-moved
1317 Phaedr| is as follows:—~‘I am a maiden of bronze and lie on the
1318 Phaedr| fancy that there might be maidens playing near.~SOCRATES:
1319 Phaedr| Plato was quite serious in maintaining a former state of existence.
1320 Phaedr| for having blasphemed the majesty of love. His palinode takes
1321 Phaedr| ten thousand reviewers (mala murioi) are engaged in dissecting
1322 Phaedr| who is afflicted with a malady which no experienced person
1323 Phaedr| whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no
1324 Phaedr| prey, and when caught less manageable; hence he is of necessity
1325 Phaedr| further refutation is to be managed, whether in accusation or
1326 Phaedr| accepted.~PHAEDRUS: And right manfully.~SOCRATES: You should rather
1327 Phaedr| for want of courage and manhood, declaring that they have
1328 Phaedr| bright sun, a stranger to manly exercises and the sweat
1329 Phaedr| rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism
1330 Phaedr| rhetoricians, or the pedantries and mannerisms which they introduce into
1331 Phaedr| immediately realize that under the marble exterior of Greek literature
1332 Phaedr| among the princely twelve march in their appointed order.
1333 Phaedr| Longinus, in the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius and Julian, in
1334 Phaedr| of these forms when very marked gives a name, neither honourable
1335 Phaedr| might describe the evils of married and domestic life. They
1336 Phaedr| exalted state, let them marry (something too may be conceded
1337 Phaedr| dead level, or interminable marsh, in which Greek literature
1338 Phaedr| array of gods and demi-gods, marshalled in eleven bands; Hestia
1339 Phaedr| Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply marvellous, and I do not believe that
1340 Phaedr| impression of him is that he will marvellously improve as he grows older,
1341 Phaedr| feeble sympathy with the master-minds of former ages. They recognize ‘
1342 Phaedr| future advantage, being not mastered by love, but my own master;
1343 Phaedr| and blood-shot eyes.); the mate of insolence and pride,
1344 Phaedr| interests, more thoughts, more material for conversation; they will
1345 Phaedr| remain to furnish abundant materials of education to the coming
1346 Phaedr| arguments than these: the maturity of the thought, the perfection
1347 Phaedr| by going back to general maxims; a lesser merit is the greater
1348 Phaedr| subject. In the endless maze of English law is there
1349 Phaedr| of the meanest and most meagre description, a sham philosophy
1350 Phaedr| epigrams, biographies of the meanest and most meagre description,
1351 Phaedr| cares of a family ‘breed meanness in their souls.’ In the
1352 Phaedr| him we sung the hymn in measured and solemn strain.~PHAEDRUS:
1353 Phaedr| men.’ Once more, has not medical science become a professional
1354 Phaedr| whom’ he would give his medicines, and ‘when,’ and ‘how much.’~
1355 Phaedr| exercises and at other times of meeting, then the fountain of that
1356 Phaedr| very great power in public meetings.~SOCRATES: It has. But I
1357 Phaedr| the beauty of the beloved meets her eye and she receives
1358 Phaedr| you walk all the way to Megara, and when you have reached
1359 Phaedr| strains, or because the Melians are a musical race, help,
1360 Phaedr| SOCRATES: And if Adrastus the mellifluous or Pericles heard of these
1361 Phaedr| SOCRATES: Come, O ye Muses, melodious, as ye are called, whether
1362 Phaedr| from shooting forth, are melted, and as nourishment streams
1363 Phaedr| will write them down as memorials to be treasured against
1364 Phaedr| not these only, are the mental defects of the beloved;—
1365 Phaedr| defence. I ought also to mention the illustrious Parian,
1366 Phaedr| present, and be gracious and merciful to me, and do not in thine
1367 Phaedr| still, as people say, in the meridian. Let us rather stay and
1368 Phaedr| talk, and can discourse merrily about justice and the like.~
1369 Phaedr| Indeed, you are pleased to be merry.~SOCRATES: Do you mean that
1370 Phaedr| outside the wall, when he is met by Socrates, who professes
1371 Phaedr| Other intimations of a ‘metaphysic’ or ‘theology’ of the future
1372 Phaedr| training of teachers and the methods of education are very imperfect,
1373 Phaedr| outrageous, and not altogether metrical. They are as follows:~‘Mortals
1374 Phaedr| philosophers, like Anaxagoras and Metrodorus, had found in Homer and
1375 Phaedr| a great painter, such as Michael Angelo, or a great poet,
1376 Phaedr| feet; there should be a middle, beginning, and end, adapted
1377 Phaedr| Pericles, and which in the midst of poetry does not forget
1378 Phaedr| Again, where plagues and mightiest woes have bred in certain
1379 Phaedr| but about a quarter of a mile lower down, where you cross
1380 Phaedr| souls.’ In the fulfilment of military or public duties, they are
1381 Phaedr| at the close of the third millennium; the remainder have to complete
1382 Phaedr| enough, and yet nature has mingled a temporary pleasure and
1383 Phaedr| to fasten upon him and to minister to him. But what pleasure
1384 Phaedr| ought not to receive too minute an interpretation. In all
1385 Phaedr| another; the lover is his mirror in whom he is beholding
1386 Phaedr| Nymphs to whom you have mischievously exposed me? And therefore
1387 Phaedr| old are liable to serious misconstruction, as he elsewhere remarks (
1388 Phaedr| to lovely Helen, or some misfortune worse than blindness might
1389 Phaedr| the time I had a sort of misgiving, and, like Ibycus, ‘I was
1390 Phaedr| rhetoric, and then he will not mislead his disciple Phaedrus.~Phaedrus
1391 Phaedr| the Dialogue, seem to have misled him. For speech and writing
1392 Phaedr| living as well as loving. Our misogamist will not appeal to Anacreon
1393 Phaedr| everybody, and has to hear misplaced and exaggerated praises
1394 Phaedr| pleasure, that power of misrule is called excess. Now excess
1395 Phaedr| that Lysias has altogether missed the mark, and that I can
1396 Phaedr| state of existence. His mission was to realize the abstract;
1397 Phaedr| not attempt to pierce the mists which surrounded it. It
1398 Phaedr| the irony of Socrates to mix up sense and nonsense in
1399 Phaedr| those of other races are mixed; the human charioteer drives
1400 Phaedr| of the mind as the primum mobile, and the admission of impulse
1401 Phaedr| simplicity, may be inclined to mock; there are two lines in
1402 Phaedr| as in the Protagoras he mocks at the Sophists; as in the
1403 Phaedr| will explain, secondly, the mode in which she acts or is
1404 Phaedr| discerned in him: (1) The moderate predestinarianism which
1405 Phaedr| through the eyes, the wing moistens and he warms. And as he
1406 Phaedr| from her beloved and her moisture fails, then the orifices
1407 Phaedr| him of parents, friends, money, knowledge, and of every
1408 Phaedr| third, into a householder or money-maker; the fourth, into a gymnast;
1409 Phaedr| after marriage; how they monopolize one another’s affections
1410 Phaedr| insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
1411 Phaedr| to know about unearthly monsters? Engaged in such conversation,
1412 Phaedr| is satisfied if in eight months the seeds which he has sown
1413 Phaedr| capable of adaptation to moods and times; the other is
1414 Phaedr| must make abstraction of morality and of the Greek manner
1415 Phaedr| himself up to a faithless, morose, envious, disagreeable being,
1416 Phaedr| Epicrates, here at the house of Morychus; that house which is near
1417 Phaedr| on sons, or fathers, or mothers; nor should we ever have
1418 Phaedr| of his company even from motives of interest. The hour of
1419 Phaedr| character is cast in a finer mould. My impression of him is
1420 Phaedr| he and his party are in mourning.~PHAEDRUS: Very true.~SOCRATES:
1421 Phaedr| reading pterothoiton, ‘the movement of wings.’) is a necessity
1422 Phaedr| thousand reviewers (mala murioi) are engaged in dissecting
1423 Phaedr| with these adorning the myriad actions of ancient heroes
1424 Phaedr| who dwells in the city of Myrrhina (Myrrhinusius). And this
1425 Phaedr| in the city of Myrrhina (Myrrhinusius). And this which I am about
1426 Phaedr| Bless me, what a wonderfully mysterious art is this which Tisias
1427 Phaedr| grown ascetic on one side, mystical on the other. Neither of
1428 Phaedr| whole myth, like the other myths of Plato, describes in a
1429 Phaedr| true and tolerably credible mythus,’ in which amid poetical
1430 Phaedr| was in love with Ganymede named Desire, overflows upon the
1431 Phaedr| Christian times; or that nameless vices were prevalent at
1432 Phaedr| looks only at her earthly namesake, and instead of being awed
1433 Phaedr| will you go on with the narration?~PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates,
1434 Phaedr| no life or aspiration, no national or political force, no desire
1435 Phaedr| development of literature than nationality has ever been. There may
1436 Phaedr| tale of the grasshoppers is naturally suggested by the surrounding
1437 Phaedr| At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old
1438 Phaedr| you have heard?~PHAEDRUS: Nay, not exactly that; I should
1439 Phaedr| pricks the aperture which is nearest, until at length the entire
1440 Phaedr| correspond in a figure more nearly to the appetitive and moral
1441 Phaedr| as with the point of a needle, the real error, which is
1442 Phaedr| virtuous, but to the most needy; for they are the persons
1443 Phaedr| knowledge of Mind and the negative of Mind, which were favourite
1444 Phaedr| placing the Phaedrus in the neighbourhood of the Republic; remarking
1445 Phaedr| gust carried her over the neighbouring rocks; and this being the
1446 Phaedr| reminds them, fighting and neighing and dragging them on, until
1447 Phaedr| birds of the air build their nests in the branches.’ There
1448 Phaedr| unusual flow of eloquence—this newly-found gift he can only attribute
1449 Phaedr| PHAEDRUS: That is good news. But what do you mean?~SOCRATES:
1450 Phaedr| would Socrates think of our newspapers, of our theology? Perhaps
1451 Phaedr| single man, such as Bacon or Newton, formerly produced. There
1452 Phaedr| that is what you mean— the niceties of the art?~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~
1453 Phaedr| prudence and has worldly and niggardly ways of doling out benefits,
1454 Phaedr| really the long arm of the Nile. And you appear to be equally
1455 | ninety
1456 Phaedr| justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated
1457 | nobody
1458 Phaedr| is frightened at a little noise; and, possibly, you think
1459 Phaedr| playing with Pharmacia, when a northern gust carried her over the
1460 Phaedr| lofty neck and an aquiline nose; his colour is white, and
1461 Phaedr| merit a more particular notice: (1) the locus classicus
1462 Phaedr| PHAEDRUS: I have never noticed it; but I beseech you to
1463 Phaedr| convenient length.~Still, notwithstanding the absurdities of Polus
1464 Phaedr| counsel will all come to nought. But people imagine that
1465 Phaedr| forth, are melted, and as nourishment streams upon him, the lower
1466 Phaedr| reasoning faculty mind (nous) and information (istoria)
1467 Phaedr| receive unmeaning praises from novelists and poets, is not exacting
1468 Phaedr| Lysias. The country is a novelty to Socrates, who never goes
1469 | nowhere
1470 Phaedr| steeds flow in apace, and numberless other inconceivable and
1471 Phaedr| awakens lyrical and all other numbers; with these adorning the
1472 Phaedr| Sophists in the Protagoras. Numerous fictions of this sort occur
1473 Phaedr| words any more than in a nursery rhyme. With this he compares
1474 Phaedr| divine intelligence, being nurtured upon mind and pure knowledge,
1475 Phaedr| heard the truth even from ‘oak or rock,’ it was enough
1476 Phaedr| the temple of Dodona that oaks first gave prophetic utterances.
1477 Phaedr| ticklings of desire, the obedient steed, then as always under
1478 Phaedr| the gods in even poise, obeying the rein, glide rapidly;
1479 Phaedr| vision, and he is at last obliged, after much contention,
1480 Phaedr| gift of reason can ever be obliterated or lost. In the language
1481 Phaedr| novels like the silly and obscene romances of Longus and Heliodorus,
1482 Phaedr| of the work has tended to obscure some of Plato’s higher aims.~
1483 Phaedr| good-bye to the truth. And the observance of this principle throughout
1484 Phaedr| have a keen eye for the observation of particulars in speaking,
1485 Phaedr| Does not your simplicity observe that I have got out of dithyrambics
1486 Phaedr| eager to soar, and thus obtain no mean reward of love and
1487 Phaedr| a name which is only too obvious, and there can be as little
1488 Phaedr| beloved (this is his regular occupation), and whenever they are
1489 Phaedr| part company and are at odds with one another and with
1490 Phaedr| great works, such as the odes of Anacreon or Sappho or
1491 Phaedr| because they are afraid of offending you, and also, their judgment
1492 Phaedr| SOCRATES: Should we not offer up a prayer first of all
1493 Phaedr| day has passed, and after offering up a prayer to Pan and the
1494 Phaedr| your place by the colossal offerings of the Cypselids at Olympia.~
1495 Phaedr| istoria) to human thought (oiesis) they originally termed
1496 Phaedr| marvellously improve as he grows older, and that all former rhetoricians
1497 Phaedr| nothing left but a heap of ‘ologies’ and other technical terms
1498 Phaedr| offerings of the Cypselids at Olympia.~SOCRATES: How profoundly
1499 Phaedr| introduction of the letter Omega (oionoistike and oionistike),
1500 Phaedr| merit of the speech; for he omitted no topic of which the subject