LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
| Socrates, who is the narrator. | Menexenus. |
| Hippothales.. | Lysis. |
| Ctesippus. |
Scene:—A newly-erected Palaestra outside the walls of Athens.
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Lysis.
Socrates, Hippothales.
IWAS
going from the Academy straight to the Lyceum, Lysis.
intending to take the outer road, which is close under the wall. When I came to the postern gate of the city, which is by the fountain of Panops, I fell in with Hippo thales, the son of Hieronymus, and Ctesippus the Paeanian, and a company of young men who were standing with them. Hippothales, seeing me approach, asked whence I came and whither I was going.
I am going, I replied, from the Academy straight to the Lyceum.
Then come straight to us, he said, and put in here; you may as well.
Who are you, I said; and where am I to come?
He showed me an enclosed space and an open door over against the wall. And there, he said, is the building at which we all meet: and a goodly company we are.
And what is this building, I asked; and what sort of enter tainment have you?
204 The building, he replied, is a newly erected Palaestra; and the entertainment is generally conversation, to which you are welcome.
Thank you, I said; and is there any teacher there?
