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are already on your way to the city.
You are not far wrong, I said.
But do you see, he rejoined, how many we are?
Of course.
And are you stronger than all these? for if not, you will have to remain
where you are.
May there not be the alternative, I said, that we may persuade you to let us
go?
But can you persuade us, if we refuse to listen to you? he said.
Certainly not, replied Glaucon.
Then we are not going to listen; of that you may be assured.
Adeimantus added: Has no one told you of the torch-race on horseback in
honor of the goddess which will take place in the evening?
With horses! I replied. That is a novelty. Will horsemen carry torches and
pass them one to another during the race?
Yes, said Polemarchus; and not only so, but a festival will be celebrated at
night, which you certainly ought to see. Let us rise soon after supper and see
this festival; there will be a gathering of young men, and we will have a good
talk. Stay then, and do not be perverse.
Glaucon said, I suppose, since you insist, that we must.
Very good, I replied.
Accordingly we went with Polemarchus to his house; and there we found
his brothers Lysias and Euthydemus, and with them Thrasymachus the
Chalcedonian, Charmantides the Paeanian, and Cleitophon, the son of
Aristonymus. There too was Cephalus, the father of Polemarchus, whom I
had not seen for a long time, and I thought him very much aged. He was
seated on a cushioned chair, and had a garland on his head, for he had been
sacrificing in the court; and there were some other chairs in the room arranged
in a semicircle, upon which we sat down by him. He saluted me eagerly, and
then he said:
You don’t come to see me, Socrates, as often as you ought: If I were still
able to go and see you I would not ask you to come to me. But at my age I can
hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus.
For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the
greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation. Do not, then, deny
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The Complete Plato
- Titel
- The Complete Plato
- Autor
- Plato
- Datum
- ~347 B.C.
- Sprache
- englisch
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- 1612
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- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
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