Thus great are the heavenly blessings which first speeches, blame Lysias, who is the father of the friendship of a lover will confer upon you, the brat, and let us have no more of his progeny; my youth. Whereas the attachment of the non-bid him study philosophy, like his brother lover, which is alloyed with a worldly prudence Polemarchus; and then his lover Phaedrus will and has worldly and niggardly ways of doling no longer halt between two opinions, but will out benefits, will breed in your soul those vulgar dedicate himself wholly to love and to philosophi-qualities which the populace applaud, will send cal discourses.
you bowling round the earth during a period of nine thousand years, and leave you a fool in the PHAEDRUS: I join in the prayer, Socrates, and world below.
say with you, if this be for my good, may your And thus, dear Eros, I have made and paid my words come to pass. But why did you make your recantation, as well and as fairly as I could; more second oration so much finer than the first? I especially in the matter of the poetical figures wonder why. And I begin to be afraid that I shall which I was compelled to use, because Phaedrus lose conceit of Lysias, and that he will appear would have them. And now forgive the past and tame in comparison, even if he be willing to put accept the present, and be gracious and merci-another as fine and as long as yours into the field, ful to me, and do not in thine anger deprive me which I doubt. For quite lately one of your politi-of sight, or take from me the art of love which cians was abusing him on this very account; and thou hast given me, but grant that I may be yet called him a ‘speech writer’ again and again.
more esteemed in the eyes of the fair. And if So that a feeling of pride may probably induce Phaedrus or I myself said anything rude in our him to give up writing speeches.