Opening Charmides — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
We arrived back yesterday evening from the camp at Potidaea, and as I was returning after a long absence, I was delighted to go to my familiar haunts. I went especially to the wrestling school of Taureus, the one opposite the Queen’s Shrine, and I came across a lot of people there, most of whom were familiar to me, but there were also some whom I did not know. When they saw me coming in so unexpectedly, they immediately greeted me from all sides, and Chaerephon, being the mad person he is, jumped up in their midst, ran toward me, took me by the hand and said, “Socrates, how did you survive the battle?” A little before we left, there had been a battle at Potidaea which the people here had just heard about. And in reply to him, I said, “Like this, just as you see me.” “Well, it was reported here”, said he, “that there had been an extremely fierce battle in which many people we know had …
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