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Contents: Alcibiades 1Alcibiades 2HipparchusLoversTheagesCharmidesLachesLysis |
Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
Lysis
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[205c] but he only writes and relates things that the whole city sings of, recalling Democrates and the boy's grandfather Lysis and all his ancestors, with their wealth and the horses they kept, and their victories at Delphi, the Isthmus, and Nemea,1 with chariot-teams and coursers, and, in addition, even hoarier antiquities than these. Only two days ago he was recounting to us in some poem of his the entertainment of Hercules,--how on account of his kinship with Hercules their forefather welcomed the hero,
1 The Pythian Games were held at Delphi, the Isthmian near Corinth, and the Nemean at Nemea, between Corinth and Argos.
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Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
348 [b) Pluralform.]
Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955. OCLC: 384709, 377367, 4601236 ISBN: 0674991842, 0674992210, 0674991834
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