Phaedrus

Plato · David Horan

Dear Phaedrus, where are you going to and where are you coming from? I have been with Lysias, the son of Cephalus, and I am going for a walk outside the walls for I have spent a long time sitting with him since early this morning. On the advice of Acumenus, your friend and mine, I take my walks on the open roads, for he says that these walks are more refreshing than those through the streets. Indeed, my friend, he is right to say so. Anyway, it seems that Lysias has been in town. Yes, staying with Epicrates, in the house that belonged to Morychus, near the Olympieum. Well then, how did you spend the time? Or is it obvious that Lysias entertained you with speeches? You will find out if you have the time to come along and listen. What is this? Don’t you realise that, as Pindar puts it, I shall accord ‘a higher status than any other business’ to hearing how you and Lysias spent your time? …

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