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SELECTIONS FROM PLATO. THE OPENING OF THE "PHAEDRUS.

Socrates. Whither are you going, my dear Phaedrus, and from whence came you? Phaedrus. From Lysias, 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 until now. But being persuaded by Acumenus, who is your associate as well as mine, to take some exercise, I determined to go for a walk on the road. For he said this was more refreshing than the racing-ground. Soc. He speaks well, my friend, on this subject: and so Lysias then, as it seems, was in the city? I haedr. He was. For he dwells with Epicrates in the 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 ? Phaedr. You shall hear, if you have but leisure to walk along with me and attend. Soc. But what, do you not think that I, according to Pindar, would consider as a thing superior to business the relation of your conversation with Lysias? 1 A physician, father of the physician, Eryximachus, who appears in the Banquet. At the racing-ground there were covered ways for onlookers to stroll about in. 1