THE PHÆDRUS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE.
SOCRATES AND PHÆDRUS.
SCENE — THE BANKS OF THE ILISSUS.
SOCRATES.
WHITHER are you going, my dear Phaedrus, and from whence came you ?
PHÆDR. From Lyfias, the son of Cephalus, Socrates; but I am going, for the sake of walking, beyond the walls of the city. For I have been sitting with him a long time, indeed from very early in the morning till now. But being persuaded by Acumenus[1], who is your associate as well as mine, to take some exercise, I determined upon that of walking. For he said that this kind of exercise was not so laborious, and at the same time was more healthful, than that of the course.
SOC. He speaks well, my friend, on this subject: and so Lysias then, as it seems, was in the city.
PHÆDR. He was. For he dwells with Epicrates in this house of Morychus, which is next to that of Olympius.
SOC. But what was his employment there? Or did not Lysias treat you with a banquet of orations ?
PHÆDR. You shall hear, if you have but leisure to walk along with me, and attend.
- ↑ This Acumenus the physician is also mentioned by Plato in the Protagoras, and by Xenophon in the third book of the Sayings and Deeds of Socrates. VOL. III. 2 P Soc.
