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1501 Phaedr|         Their pretentiousness, their omniscience, their large fortunes, their
1502 Phaedr|               they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know
1503 Phaedr|             the Chaos of Anaxagoras (omou panta chremata) and no Mind
1504 Phaedr|              Too late their eyes are opened; they were taken unawares
1505 Phaedr|             before Christ. As in the opening of the Dialogue he ridicules
1506 Phaedr|              and make a show of them openly in the pride of his heart;—
1507 Phaedr|            them together the soul is oppressed at the strangeness of her
1508 Phaedr|              quite a stranger to the oracles of Thamus or Ammon, who
1509 Phaedr|            has risen, recognizes the oracular sign which forbids him to
1510 Phaedr|              taught and communicated orally for the sake of instruction
1511 Phaedr|             the ground, then the law ordains that this soul shall at
1512 Phaedr|             leads the way in heaven, ordering all and taking care of all;
1513 Phaedr|            masters of themselves and orderly—enslaving the vicious and
1514 Phaedr|         winged she soars upward, and orders the whole world; whereas
1515 Phaedr|            is distinguished from the ordinary good man who gains wings
1516 Phaedr|              tradition of Boreas and Oreithyia. Socrates, after a satirical
1517 Phaedr|           whole’—any semblance of an organized being ‘having hands and
1518 Phaedr|             became vacant, barbaric, oriental. No one had anything new
1519 Phaedr|             moisture fails, then the orifices of the passage out of which
1520 Phaedr|          human thought (oiesis) they originally termed oionoistike, but
1521 Phaedr|         description of the ‘heavenly originals’...~The chief criteria for
1522 Phaedr|             the colours of paint and ornament, and the rest of a piece?—
1523 Phaedr|           great deal which is merely ornamental, and the interpreter has
1524 Phaedr|           the feet. Judging from the ornaments and images, this must be
1525 Phaedr|         better than Sibylline books, Orphic poems, Byzantine imitations
1526 Phaedr|              also, he appeared to me ostentatiously to exult in showing how
1527       | otherwise
1528 Phaedr|              the charioteer into the outer world, and is carried round
1529 Phaedr|        occurs. One of them is rather outrageous, and not altogether metrical.
1530 Phaedr|         often attempted to represent outwardly what can be only ‘spiritually
1531 Phaedr|               turning the seamy side outwards, a modern Socrates might
1532 Phaedr|            back a little, the one is overcome with shame and wonder, and
1533 Phaedr|              irrational desire which overcomes the tendency of opinion
1534 Phaedr|          with Ganymede named Desire, overflows upon the lover, and some
1535 Phaedr|             been finally humbled and overpowered. And yet the way of philosophy,
1536 Phaedr|              of rhetoric was soon to overspread all Hellas; and Plato with
1537 Phaedr|           perceive that I am already overtaken by the Nymphs to whom you
1538 Phaedr|            First, passionate love is overthrown by the sophistical or interested,
1539 Phaedr|            was ravishing. And this I owe to you, Phaedrus, for I
1540 Phaedr|            bred in certain families, owing to some ancient blood-guiltiness,
1541 Phaedr|      imprisoned in the body, like an oyster in his shell. Let me linger
1542 Phaedr|           dear Eros, I have made and paid my recantation, as well
1543 Phaedr|             pierced and maddened and pained, and at the recollection
1544 Phaedr|            exhibits; he makes things painful to the disappointed which
1545 Phaedr|         health having the colours of paint and ornament, and the rest
1546 Phaedr|         pictures and images, whether painted or carved, or described
1547 Phaedr|        writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the
1548 Phaedr|            and write about poems and paintings, but we seem to have lost
1549 Phaedr|           allow him to carry off the palm. And we, on our part, will
1550 Phaedr|       loveliest she is also the most palpable to sight. Now he who is
1551 Phaedr|            Chaos of Anaxagoras (omou panta chremata) and no Mind or
1552 Phaedr|              mention the illustrious Parian, Evenus, who first invented
1553 Phaedr|            shall prove that ‘ceteris paribus’ the lover ought to be accepted
1554 Phaedr|           and may be compared to the parodies of the Sophists in the Protagoras.
1555 Phaedr|             Plato. The use of such a parody, though very imperfect,
1556 Phaedr|              as we may say, a little parodying the words of Pausanias in
1557 Phaedr|            with joy. But when she is parted from her beloved and her
1558 Phaedr|            genius appear to suffer a partial eclipse, there is a boundless
1559 Phaedr|            her character, she beheld partially and imperfectly the vision
1560 Phaedr|       disposition, so far as man can participate in God. The qualities of
1561 Phaedr|              sensible warm motion of particles which flow towards her,
1562 Phaedr|           speak scientifically, will particularly set forth the nature of
1563 Phaedr|          thought he, ‘I shall have a partner in my revels.’ And he invited
1564 Phaedr|          abiding, I shall declare to passers-by that Midas sleeps below.’~
1565 Phaedr|             who is the victim of his passions and the slave of pleasure
1566 Phaedr|           the plain of truth is that pasturage is found there, which is
1567 Phaedr|               which he has been long patching and piecing, adding some
1568 Phaedr|            father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children
1569 Phaedr|             who is treading the same path. He will rejoice in beholding
1570 Phaedr|              as them. ‘Have a little patience, Phaedrus and Socrates,
1571 Phaedr|             the Muses, who are their patronesses; for the grasshoppers were
1572 Phaedr|        little parodying the words of Pausanias in the Symposium, ‘there
1573 Phaedr|               dear Phaedrus, I shall pause for an instant to ask whether
1574 Phaedr|           which the other refuses to pay. Too late the beloved learns,
1575 Phaedr|              and one day when he was paying his addresses to him, he
1576 Phaedr|             of interest. The hour of payment arrives, and now he is the
1577 Phaedr|          please, and if employed as ‘peacemakers’ between the new and old
1578 Phaedr|             has described as his own peculiar study.~Thus amid discord
1579 Phaedr|             that he is a madman or a pedant who fancies that he is a
1580 Phaedr|           harmonious cadence and the pedantic reasoning of the rhetoricians
1581 Phaedr|             the rhetoricians, or the pedantries and mannerisms which they
1582 Phaedr|             image placed upon a holy pedestal. He sees her, but he is
1583 Phaedr|              Republic.) Yet, if like Peisthetaerus in Aristophanes, he could
1584 Phaedr|             thoughts ‘in water’ with pen and ink, sowing words which
1585 Phaedr|           his eyes, for that was the penalty which was inflicted upon
1586 Phaedr|             depart until he has done penance. His conscious has been
1587 Phaedr|           seeing, hearing, touching, perceiving him in every way. And therefore
1588 Phaedr|             love ceases he becomes a perfidious enemy of him on whom he
1589 Phaedr|             why so many of them have perished, why the lyric poets have
1590 Phaedr|          younger than you:—Wherefore perpend, and do not compel me to
1591 Phaedr|          said to maintain the ‘final perseverance’ of those who have entered
1592 Phaedr|          deeds; but at last, when he persists in plaguing them, they yield
1593 Phaedr|            is supposed to be the Law personified, the ideal made Life.~Yet
1594 Phaedr|            of the multitude, falsely persuades them not about ‘the shadow
1595 Phaedr|           the purpose of teaching or persuading;—such is the view which
1596 Phaedr|             own, when we tell of the petty causes of lovers’ jealousies,
1597 Phaedr|                                      Phaedro~
1598 Phaedr|            Orithyia was playing with Pharmacia, when a northern gust carried
1599 Phaedr|            expressed in the works of Phidias or Praxiteles; and not rather
1600 Phaedr|       Cratylus that his knowledge of philology is derived from Euthyphro,
1601 Phaedr|              one reckoning, save the phrase is a little variations’);
1602 Phaedr|             I became inspired with a phrenzy.~PHAEDRUS: Indeed, you are
1603 Phaedr|            on the grave of Midas the Phrygian.~PHAEDRUS: What is there
1604 Phaedr|          their passion is over, will pick a quarrel with you, but
1605 Phaedr|         discerned,’ men feel that in pictures and images, whether painted
1606 Phaedr|           has been long patching and piecing, adding some and taking
1607 Phaedr|          sake. It did not attempt to pierce the mists which surrounded
1608 Phaedr|            length the entire soul is pierced and maddened and pained,
1609 Phaedr|             But the mind of Socrates pierces through the differences
1610 Phaedr|         sense. For sight is the most piercing of our bodily senses; though
1611 Phaedr|             all is the grass, like a pillow gently sloping to the head.
1612 Phaedr|            visible only to mind, the pilot of the soul. The divine
1613 Phaedr|              may say in the words of Pindar, ‘than any business’?~PHAEDRUS:
1614 Phaedr|              because he knows how to pitch the highest and lowest note;
1615 Phaedr|             through the ears, like a pitcher, from the waters of another,
1616 Phaedr|               and when he should use pithy sayings, pathetic appeals,
1617 Phaedr|       therefore the beloved is to be pitied rather than envied. But
1618 Phaedr| interpretations of mythology, and he pities anyone who has. When you
1619 Phaedr|         under the earth, the good to places of joy in heaven. When a
1620 Phaedr|            shall not be far wrong in placing the Phaedrus in the neighbourhood
1621 Phaedr|          divine origin. Again, where plagues and mightiest woes have
1622 Phaedr|            last, when he persists in plaguing them, they yield and agree
1623 Phaedr|           spoken word is in a manner plainer than the unspoken, I had
1624 Phaedr|           tell me, instead, what are plaintiff and defendant doing in a
1625 Phaedr|             verily therefore my best plan is to speak as I best can.~
1626 Phaedr|             help of science sows and plants therein words which are
1627 Phaedr|             It had spread words like plaster over the whole field of
1628 Phaedr|              even before them in the platitudes of Isocrates and his school,
1629 Phaedr|        SOCRATES: And now the play is played out; and of rhetoric enough.
1630 Phaedr|             Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech.
1631 Phaedr|     Christian reproductions of Greek plays, novels like the silly and
1632 Phaedr|          agree to tell lies’? Is not pleading ‘an art of speaking unconnected
1633 Phaedr|             his ways are not ways of pleasantness; he is mighty disagreeable; ‘
1634 Phaedr|           and unlike, as the speaker pleases. Its use is not confined,
1635 Phaedr|           each other the most sacred pledges, and they may not break
1636 Phaedr|             wings they have the same plumage because of their love.~Thus
1637 Phaedr|             but the mortal drops her plumes and settles upon the earth.~
1638 Phaedr|            of the blows of the whip, plunges and runs away, giving all
1639 Phaedr|             round below the surface, plunging, treading on one another,
1640 Phaedr|         Hellas and the East? Only in Plutarch, in Lucian, in Longinus,
1641 Phaedr|               prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic, having four gods
1642 Phaedr|         chariots of the gods in even poise, obeying the rein, glide
1643 Phaedr|         philosophy, like his brother Polemarchus; and then his lover Phaedrus
1644 Phaedr|         present; they were to give a polish.~PHAEDRUS: Had not Protagoras
1645 Phaedr|           vulgar qualities which the populace applaud, will send you bowling
1646 Phaedr|           speak of them;—the one vox populi, the other vox Dei, he might
1647 Phaedr|              other inconceivable and portentous natures. And if he is sceptical
1648 Phaedr|         rhetoricians.~In this latter portion of the Dialogue there are
1649 Phaedr|             Phaedrus, Symposium, and portions of the Republic, who has
1650 Phaedr|            drink, which inclines the possessor of the desire to drink,
1651 Phaedr|          render immortal, making the possessors of it happy to the utmost
1652 Phaedr|            Socrates, for there is no possibility of another, and yet the
1653 Phaedr|          down, and do you choose any posture in which you can read best.
1654 Phaedr|             behind a rampart, not of pots and dishes, but of unreadable
1655 Phaedr|          inspiration from Zeus, they pour out their own fountain upon
1656 Phaedr|            which has been imprisoned pours over the soul of the lover;
1657 Phaedr|       Symposium, as one of the great powers of nature, which takes many
1658 Phaedr|           this is admirable, if only practicable.~SOCRATES: But even to fail
1659 Phaedr|         which is worth reading has a practical and speculative as well
1660 Phaedr|             such creatures and their practices, and yet for the time they
1661 Phaedr|          mind by arguments; which is practised not only in courts and public
1662 Phaedr|            sows in fitting soil, and practises husbandry, and is satisfied
1663 Phaedr|           see that I have no hope of practising my art upon you. But if
1664 Phaedr|              the works of Phidias or Praxiteles; and not rather of an imaginary
1665 Phaedr|           you and I, Phaedrus, would pray that we may become like
1666 Phaedr|             certain proofs: that our preachers are in the habit of praising
1667 Phaedr|            with ourselves?~PHAEDRUS: Precisely.~SOCRATES: Then in some
1668 Phaedr|             in him: (1) The moderate predestinarianism which here, as in the Republic,
1669 Phaedr|             principal ones, having a predominant influence over the lives
1670 Phaedr|            another form: Is marriage preferable with or without love? ‘Among
1671 Phaedr|            be a greater freedom from prejudice and party; we may better
1672 Phaedr|          reference to the errors and prejudices which prevail among ourselves.
1673 Phaedr|               having agreed upon the premises we may decide about the
1674 Phaedr|          allow you to start with the premiss that the lover is more disordered
1675 Phaedr|              has said his say and is preparing to go away.~Phaedrus begs
1676 Phaedr|           book, or has stumbled on a prescription or two, although he has
1677 Phaedr|             be a use in writing as a preservative against the forgetfulness
1678 Phaedr|              would depend upon their preserving in them this principle—
1679 Phaedr|             erotic, having four gods presiding over them; the first was
1680 Phaedr|          education through the cheap press, and by the help of high
1681 Phaedr|       therefore let there be no more pretences; for, indeed, I know the
1682 Phaedr|              them, nevertheless they pretended to be something, hoping
1683 Phaedr|            voluminous systems. Their pretentiousness, their omniscience, their
1684 Phaedr|             something, and under the pretext that to realize the true
1685 Phaedr|              I think that we are now pretty well informed about the
1686 Phaedr|             that nameless vices were prevalent at Athens and in other Greek
1687 Phaedr|            closed and rigid, and had prevented the wing from shooting forth,
1688 Phaedr|           these make him a less easy prey, and when caught less manageable;
1689 Phaedr|        buying honour from men at the price of sinning against the gods.’
1690 Phaedr|            sense, and is full of the prickings and ticklings of desire,
1691 Phaedr|           life, on which he formerly prided himself, he now despises,
1692 Phaedr|         prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses at Dodona when out of their
1693 Phaedr|            notion of the mind as the primum mobile, and the admission
1694 Phaedr|           who are reckoned among the princely twelve march in their appointed
1695 Phaedr|              lovely. But this is the privilege of beauty, that being the
1696 Phaedr|             he tries to work out the problem of love without regard to
1697 Phaedr|           the philosophical theme or proem of the whole. But ideas
1698 Phaedr|         character, he must, however, profess that the speech which he
1699 Phaedr|              is met by Socrates, who professes that he will not leave him
1700 Phaedr|            of the art which they are professing to teach. The thing which
1701 Phaedr|             at the rhetoricians. The profession of rhetoric was the greatest
1702 Phaedr|             medical science become a professional routine, which many ‘practise
1703 Phaedr|              us take a survey of the professions to which he refers and try
1704 Phaedr|       PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And a professor of the art will make the
1705 Phaedr|        himself. Verily, a lover is a profitable guardian and associate for
1706 Phaedr|            Lysias, but he is also in profound earnest and in a deeper
1707 Phaedr|            at Olympia.~SOCRATES: How profoundly in earnest is the lover,
1708 Phaedr|               their stupidity, their progresses through Hellas accompanied
1709 Phaedr|       treatises of rhetoric, however prolific in hard names. When Plato
1710 Phaedr|              reach of the mouth. The promised pleasure turns out to be
1711 Phaedr|             case in the parables and prophecies of Scripture, the meaning
1712 Phaedr|            as a great rhetorician he prophesies. The heat of the day has
1713 Phaedr|       prophecy is a madness, and the prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses
1714 Phaedr|           deities; and, perhaps, the prophets of the Muses who are singing
1715 Phaedr|        writing and speech as we were proposing?~PHAEDRUS: Very good.~SOCRATES:
1716 Phaedr|          something yet to be said of propriety and impropriety of writing.~
1717 Phaedr|               and confined’ within a province or an island. The East will
1718 Phaedr|            is alloyed with a worldly prudence and has worldly and niggardly
1719 Phaedr|            the threefold division of psychology. The image of the charioteer
1720 Phaedr|        growing of wings (Or, reading pterothoiton, ‘the movement of wings.’)
1721 Phaedr|             his fall is compelled to pull back the reins with such
1722 Phaedr|              teeth of the brute, and pulling harder than ever at the
1723 Phaedr|       emotion, throbbing as with the pulsations of an artery, pricks the
1724 Phaedr|             under the earth, and are punished; others to some place in
1725 Phaedr|           haunches to the ground and punishes him sorely. And when this
1726 Phaedr|            after he had deserted the purely Socratic point of view,
1727 Phaedr|              give a vomit and also a purge, and all that sort of thing;
1728 Phaedr|             lovely Helen, he at once purged himself. And the purgation
1729 Phaedr|        secondly, there is the art of purification by mysteries; thirdly, poetry
1730 Phaedr|           his mind, is by the use of purifications and mysteries made whole
1731 Phaedr|            two souls, until they are purified from the grossness of earthly
1732 Phaedr|            beauty, like the absolute purity and goodness which Christian
1733 Phaedr|          LITERATURE.~One of the main purposes of Plato in the Phaedrus
1734 Phaedr|            which two parties fled or pursued according as an oyster-shell
1735 Phaedr|           away from the beloved, who pursues him with vain reproaches,
1736 Phaedr|             not afraid or ashamed of pursuing pleasure in violation of
1737 Phaedr|              are mere flatterers and putters together of words. This
1738 Phaedr|              Translated by Cic. Tus. Quaest.) The soul through all her
1739 Phaedr|       wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as a temperate man
1740 Phaedr|             neglected his affairs or quarrelled with his relations; he has
1741 Phaedr|            exactly here, but about a quarter of a mile lower down, where
1742 Phaedr|              one; there arriving and quickening the passages of the wings,
1743 Phaedr|             we will sit down at some quiet spot.~PHAEDRUS: I am fortunate
1744 Phaedr|          still, like a bird eager to quit its cage, she flutters and
1745 Phaedr|              not let us exchange ‘tu quoque’ as in a farce, or compel
1746 Phaedr|           ever; he falls back like a racer at the barrier, and with
1747 Phaedr|          descent, but those of other races are mixed; the human charioteer
1748 Phaedr|              he keeps his word. Some raillery ensues, and at length Socrates,
1749 Phaedr|           than the ‘lover’s.’~We may raise the same question in another
1750 Phaedr|           retiring a little behind a rampart, not of pots and dishes,
1751 Phaedr|          things which are beyond the range of human faculties, or inaccessible
1752 Phaedr|            chooses his love from the ranks of beauty according to his
1753 Phaedr|              obeying the rein, glide rapidly; but the others labour,
1754 Phaedr|            are ignorant of what this rapture means, because they do not
1755 Phaedr|         friend of man (except in the rare instances of a Diotima or
1756 Phaedr|          they continue to enjoy, yet rarely because they have not the
1757 Phaedr|           satirical allusion to the ‘rationalizers’ of his day, replies that
1758 Phaedr|              song appeared they were ravished with delight; and singing
1759 Phaedr|      admirable; the effect on me was ravishing. And this I owe to you,
1760 Phaedr|            on him there is a sort of reaction, and the shudder passes
1761 Phaedr|              the recollection of the reader.~...~No one can duly appreciate
1762 Phaedr|          against all the writers and readers of novels, to suggest this
1763 Phaedr|           chariots of the gods glide readily upwards and stand upon the
1764 Phaedr|             pulls out the speech and reads:—~The speech consists of
1765 Phaedr|       experience does not favour the realization of such a hope or promise.
1766 Phaedr|            more difficulty to him in realizing the eternal existence of
1767 Phaedr|             thread which appears and reappears throughout is rhetoric;
1768 Phaedr|           you say, and I too will be reasonable, and will allow you to start
1769 Phaedr|        immortal no such union can be reasonably believed to be; although
1770 Phaedr|           and as a breeze or an echo rebounds from the smooth rocks and
1771 Phaedr|             he asks for a return and recalls to his recollection former
1772 Phaedr|             a speech should end in a recapitulation, though they do not all
1773       | recent
1774 Phaedr|             esteemed by the rational recipient, and less easily hidden
1775 Phaedr|          inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy,
1776 Phaedr|            oionistike, ‘’tis all one reckoning, save the phrase is a little
1777 Phaedr|           good-will of the lover; he recognises that the inspired friend
1778 Phaedr|           full of the evils which he recognized as flowing from the spurious
1779 Phaedr|             Socrates, who has risen, recognizes the oracular sign which
1780 Phaedr|              come back, as Herodicus recommends, without going in, I will
1781 Phaedr|              But it would be idle to reconcile all the details of the passage:
1782 Phaedr|          Phaedo, they are seeking to recover from a former state of existence.
1783 Phaedr|            European languages, never recovered.~This monotony of literature,
1784 Phaedr|             but only for the sake of recreation and amusement; he will write
1785 Phaedr|            wings in the third of the recurring periods of a thousand years;
1786 Phaedr|           about them, and would fain reduce them one after another to
1787 Phaedr|             he is always employed in reducing him to inferiority. And
1788 Phaedr|              to which they are to be referred.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
1789 Phaedr|       different characters of men by referring them back to the nature
1790 Phaedr|         takes away half the joys and refinements of life; it increases its
1791 Phaedr|            how their characters were reflected upon one another, and seemed
1792 Phaedr|             irony into that of plain reflection and common sense. But we
1793 Phaedr|             other dialogues he makes reflections and casts sly imputation
1794 Phaedr|             speak and when he should refrain, and when he should use
1795 Phaedr|             the government of shame, refrains from leaping on the beloved;
1796 Phaedr|         rhetorician, and is going to refresh himself by taking a walk
1797 Phaedr|          although, if the hearer had refused, he would sooner or later
1798 Phaedr|           his reward which the other refuses to pay. Too late the beloved
1799 Phaedr|          thus gain an opportunity of refuting. And there are other devices
1800 Phaedr|             and animals, is spent in regaining this. The stages of the
1801 Phaedr|         speech with which Lysias has regaled him, and which he is carrying
1802 Phaedr|             while following God—when regardless of that which we now call
1803 Phaedr|       attractive interpretations; he regards the inventor of them as ‘
1804 Phaedr|         approach in a chariot to the regions of light and the house of
1805 Phaedr|             begun, he must go on and rehabilitate Hippocentaurs and chimeras
1806 Phaedr|            friend here desires me to rehearse, in order that his friend
1807 Phaedr|              even poise, obeying the rein, glide rapidly; but the
1808 Phaedr|              the force of passion is reinforced, from this very force, receiving
1809 Phaedr|             authors of romances, who reject the warnings of their friends
1810 Phaedr|           delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done out of his
1811 Phaedr|               with a truer instinct, rejects these attractive interpretations;
1812 Phaedr|         similar weakness;—he saw and rejoiced; now thought he, ‘I shall
1813 Phaedr|             stiffened wing begins to relax and grow again; desire which
1814 Phaedr|             persons who will be most relieved, and will therefore be the
1815 Phaedr|           hurries him into verse and relieves the monotony of the style.~
1816 Phaedr|            the West to the East. The religions and literatures of the world
1817 Phaedr|          them and contemplating with religious awe the forms of justice,
1818 Phaedr|             nice,’ would he not have remarked that they are found in all
1819 Phaedr|       neighbourhood of the Republic; remarking only that allowance must
1820 Phaedr|     misconstruction, as he elsewhere remarks (Republic). And therefore
1821 Phaedr|        writing only, if at all, as a remedy against old age. The natural
1822 Phaedr|            the arguments in order to remind the hearers of them.~SOCRATES:
1823 Phaedr|         SOCRATES: Yes; thank you for reminding me:—There is the exordium,
1824 Phaedr|           they had forgotten, and he reminds them, fighting and neighing
1825 Phaedr|            digressions which are but remotely connected with the main
1826 Phaedr|              He sees clearly how far removed they are from the ways of
1827 Phaedr|        brought up in different soils render immortal, making the possessors
1828 Phaedr|     neglected their own concerns and rendered service to others: and when
1829 Phaedr|            the ‘wing of the soul’ is renewed and gains strength; she
1830 Phaedr|              holiness and truth, but renewing them at the fountain of
1831 Phaedr|           any compulsion, no time of repentance ever comes; for they confer
1832 Phaedr|              Socrates; what you call repetition was the especial merit of
1833 Phaedr|              he has detected several repetitions and other marks of haste.
1834 Phaedr|           more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made glad, until the
1835 Phaedr|              and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth,
1836 Phaedr|           rationalizers’ of his day, replies that he has no time for
1837 Phaedr|             scene. They are also the representatives of the Athenians as children
1838 Phaedr|       classical histories, Christian reproductions of Greek plays, novels like
1839 Phaedr|           thinks may be hinderers or reprovers of their most sweet converse;
1840 Phaedr|              or even of second-rate, reputation has a place in the innumerable
1841 Phaedr|         SOCRATES: All the great arts require discussion and high speculation
1842 Phaedr|             composition in which the requirement of unity is most stringent;
1843 Phaedr|              the unity of a dialogue requires a single subject. But the
1844 Phaedr|            is human nature,—an exact resemblance, is in the main the Platonic
1845 Phaedr|       produce fruit. Here is a great reservoir or treasure-house of human
1846 Phaedr|        himself, or rather some power residing within him, could make a
1847 Phaedr|           secondly, analysis, or the resolution of the whole into parts.
1848 Phaedr|         coming to rest at a place of resort of theirs, like sheep lie
1849 Phaedr|             they may perhaps, out of respect, give us of the gifts which
1850 Phaedr|              the opinion of Socrates respecting the local tradition of Boreas
1851 Phaedr|           the topics (being in these respects far inferior to the second);
1852 Phaedr|              doubt and ignorance. It rested upon tradition and authority.
1853 Phaedr|           there any elixir which can restore life and youth to the literature
1854 Phaedr|         years before their wings are restored to them. Each time there
1855 Phaedr|         SOCRATES: The responsibility rests with you. But hear what
1856 Phaedr|              once they saw. Few only retain an adequate remembrance
1857 Phaedr|             the ‘birds’ to hear him, retiring a little behind a rampart,
1858 Phaedr|                immediately his sight returned to him. Now I will be wiser
1859 Phaedr|           poet, such as Shakespeare, returning to earth, ‘courteously rebuke’
1860 Phaedr|             unwise’ to die, but were reunited in another state of being,
1861 Phaedr|              the whole into parts or reuniting the parts into a whole’—
1862 Phaedr|          this or in another life may reveal to her.~ON THE DECLINE OF
1863 Phaedr|             love which is afterwards revealed to us. The extreme of commonplace
1864 Phaedr|           shall have a partner in my revels.’ And he invited him to
1865 Phaedr|            to know, and working with reverence to find out what God in
1866 Phaedr|           his beloved as of a god he reverences him, and if he were not
1867 Phaedr|          speeches are then passed in review: the first of them has no
1868 Phaedr|          nature,’ while ten thousand reviewers (mala murioi) are engaged
1869 Phaedr|               of writing articles in reviews, some have desired to live
1870 Phaedr|              contained many seeds of revival and renaissance in the future.
1871 Phaedr|            there any need to call up revolting associations, which as a
1872 Phaedr|              the compositions of the rhapsodes, they are only recited in
1873 Phaedr|            of clauses. There is more rhythm than reason; the creative
1874 Phaedr|             poor man rather than the rich, and the old man rather
1875 Phaedr|            to invent; and being well rid of all these evils, why
1876 Phaedr|              put them to the test of ridicule he touches, as with the
1877 Phaedr|              I will now proceed. The right-hand horse is upright and cleanly
1878 Phaedr|          second degree shall be some righteous king or warrior chief; the
1879 Phaedr|             been hitherto closed and rigid, and had prevented the wing
1880 Phaedr|           they go. Socrates, who has risen, recognizes the oracular
1881 Phaedr|             of the animal, the other rising above them and contemplating
1882 Phaedr|        entered with holy prayers and rites, and by inspired utterances
1883 Phaedr|              exhibit Socrates as the rival or superior of the Athenian
1884 Phaedr|          nowhere when he enters into rivalry with the madman.~I might
1885 Phaedr|           its fate, I will cross the river and make the best of my
1886 Phaedr|            cowardly one, and to have robbed him of his coat or of something
1887 Phaedr|              truth even from ‘oak or rock,’ it was enough for them;
1888 Phaedr|           under your cloak, for that roll, as I suspect, is the actual
1889 Phaedr|             place in the innumerable rolls of Greek literature.~If
1890 Phaedr|          Lucian, in Longinus, in the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius
1891 Phaedr|              not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his
1892 Phaedr|              no use in taking a long rough roundabout way if there
1893 Phaedr|        rhetoric has been getting too roughly handled by us, and she might
1894 Phaedr|           use in taking a long rough roundabout way if there be a shorter
1895 Phaedr|              only the clearness, and roundness, and finish, and tournure
1896 Phaedr|            there are two guiding and ruling principles which lead us
1897 Phaedr|             to take off its coat and run at him might and main?’ (
1898 Phaedr|             may be seen of the lover running away from the beloved, who
1899 Phaedr|           downright madman, he would sacrifice to his beloved as to the
1900 Phaedr|             here on this spot by his sad tomb abiding, I shall declare
1901 Phaedr|              along with you. Ancient sages, men and women, who have
1902 Phaedr|       discoursing, and like Odysseus sailing past them, deaf to their
1903 Phaedr|        Athens, necessary ‘to a man’s salvation,’ or at any rate to his
1904 Phaedr|        character of Greek literature sank lower as time went on. It
1905 Phaedr|               at whose feet you have sat, craftily conceal the nature
1906 Phaedr|         Oreithyia. Socrates, after a satirical allusion to the ‘rationalizers’
1907 Phaedr|          Plato in the Phaedrus is to satirize Rhetoric, or rather the
1908 Phaedr|        Socrates, half in jest and to satisfy his own wild humour, takes
1909 Phaedr|              he would not say to him savagely, ‘Fool, you are mad!’ But
1910 Phaedr|               tis all one reckoning, save the phrase is a little variations’);
1911 Phaedr|              of the future which has saved them from falling. But it
1912 Phaedr|              attempt to regain this ‘saving’ knowledge of the ideas,
1913 Phaedr|             itself to go forward and scale the heights of knowledge,
1914 Phaedr|            which the remains are but scanty after order and arrangement
1915 Phaedr|              urges them on, and will scarce yield to their prayer that
1916 Phaedr|          First, the comprehension of scattered particulars in one idea;
1917 Phaedr|     portentous natures. And if he is sceptical about them, and would fain
1918 Phaedr|            was in existence than the scholars of the Renaissance carried
1919 Phaedr|          Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get
1920 Phaedr|             more of compilations, of scholia, of extracts, of commentaries,
1921 Phaedr| interpretation? Why did the physical sciences never arrive at any true
1922 Phaedr|            preserved.~Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly
1923 Phaedr|           parables and prophecies of Scripture, the meaning is allowed
1924 Phaedr|              and us to him. Like the Scriptures, Plato admits of endless
1925 Phaedr|           such a manner, turning the seamy side outwards, a modern
1926 Phaedr|            remark that we are always searching for a belief and deploring
1927 Phaedr|            of first-rate, or even of second-rate, reputation has a place
1928 Phaedr|             the soul; for in that he seeks to produce conviction.~PHAEDRUS:
1929       | seeming
1930 Phaedr|           Greece no more.’~Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit
1931 Phaedr|              likely to take offence, seldom changes, and may be dissolved
1932 Phaedr|             comes’? or, whether the ‘select wise’ are not ‘the many’
1933 Phaedr|        immortal, he who affirms that self-motion is the very idea and essence
1934 Phaedr|           disposed to reply that the self-motive is to be attributed to God
1935 Phaedr|              appetitive and moral or semi-rational soul of Aristotle. And thus,
1936 Phaedr|        manner: ‘Be it enacted by the senate, the people, or both, on
1937 Phaedr|           sayings, pathetic appeals, sensational effects, and all the other
1938 Phaedr|        further show that love is not sent by the gods for any good
1939 Phaedr|           notions of society and the sentimental literature of the day, alone
1940 Phaedr|            remains. The intermediate sentimentalism, which has exercised so
1941 Phaedr|             I expected to praise the sentiments of the author, or only the
1942 Phaedr|             It is the interval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians
1943 Phaedr|              made like him whom they serve, and when they have found
1944 Phaedr|          nature of the God whom they served in a former state of existence,
1945 Phaedr|           the extreme value which he sets upon this performance, because
1946 Phaedr|         conflict grows more and more severe; and at last the charioteer,
1947 Phaedr|            and perhaps he might more severely chastise some of us for
1948 Phaedr|             a further proof that the severer rule was not observed by
1949 Phaedr|        regarding the relation of the sexes. In this, as in his other
1950 Phaedr|             Yes.~PHAEDRUS: There are shade and gentle breezes, and
1951 Phaedr|            strong? One brought up in shady bowers and not in the bright
1952 Phaedr|             latter part, he aims his shafts at the rhetoricians. The
1953 Phaedr|              of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding
1954 Phaedr|             or a great poet, such as Shakespeare, returning to earth, ‘courteously
1955 Phaedr|         youth, but to those who will share their possessions with you
1956 Phaedr|            highest to him who has or shares in it, and that he who loves
1957 Phaedr|            of resort of theirs, like sheep lie asleep at noon around
1958 Phaedr|          body, like an oyster in his shell. Let me linger over the
1959 Phaedr|             thou didst not embark in ships, nor ever go to the walls
1960 Phaedr|              prevented the wing from shooting forth, are melted, and as
1961 Phaedr|        passage out of which the wing shoots dry up and close, and intercept
1962 Phaedr|              Further, if we ought to shower favours on those who are
1963 Phaedr|              enemy of him on whom he showered his oaths and prayers and
1964 Phaedr|         enter their temple. All this shows that madness is one of heaven’
1965 Phaedr|          there is a sound in the air shrill and summerlike which makes
1966 Phaedr|          bright for mortal eye,’ and shrinking from them in amazement.
1967 Phaedr|              when he looks at an old shrivelled face and the remainder to
1968 Phaedr|          might also tell you how the Sibyl and other inspired persons
1969 Phaedr|           invent nothing better than Sibylline books, Orphic poems, Byzantine
1970 Phaedr|     rhetoricians newly imported from Sicily, which had ceased to be
1971 Phaedr|            cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters
1972 Phaedr|              in the Republic, always sides with the reason. Both are
1973 Phaedr|              to speak and when to be silent.~PHAEDRUS: You mean the
1974 Phaedr|         Greek plays, novels like the silly and obscene romances of
1975 Phaedr|              the same pleasures, and similarity begets friendship; yet you
1976 Phaedr|             speeches. I would except Simmias the Theban, but all the
1977       | since
1978 Phaedr|             condemned by Socrates as sinful and blasphemous towards
1979 Phaedr|             from men at the price of sinning against the gods.’ Now I
1980 Phaedr|             past them, deaf to their siren voices, they may perhaps,
1981 Phaedr|                So we may fill up the sketch of Socrates, lest, as Phaedrus
1982 Phaedr|          While the sun is hot in the sky above us, let us ask that
1983 Phaedr|        youthful companions or others slanderously told him that he would be
1984 Phaedr|              of his passions and the slave of pleasure will of course
1985 Phaedr|           might imagine that we were slaves, who, coming to rest at
1986 Phaedr|         therefore are rightly called slavish.~SOCRATES: There is time
1987 Phaedr|             to passers-by that Midas sleeps below.’~Now in this rhyme
1988 Phaedr|              that their favourite is slighted by the latter and benefited
1989 Phaedr|              is clear that the error slips in through resemblances?~
1990 Phaedr|          grass, like a pillow gently sloping to the head. My dear Phaedrus,
1991 Phaedr|             coward of the brave, the slow of speech of the speaker,
1992 Phaedr|             when the cause is great, slowly laying up little wrath—
1993 Phaedr|              are not conversing, but slumbering at mid-day, lulled by their
1994 Phaedr|            you he would be casting a slur upon his own favourite pursuit.~
1995 Phaedr|          makes reflections and casts sly imputation upon the higher
1996 Phaedr|            an echo rebounds from the smooth rocks and returns whence
1997 Phaedr|        Socrates, your account of the so-called art of rhetoric, or am I
1998 Phaedr|             and had a more important social and educational influence
1999 Phaedr|              had deserted the purely Socratic point of view, but before
2000 Phaedr|           toil, accustomed only to a soft and luxurious diet, instead