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Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 11
At one time there was in Athens a beautiful woman named Theodote/, who was ready to keep company with anyone who pleased her. One of the bystanders mentioned her name, declaring that words failed him to describe the lady's beauty, and adding that artists visited her to paint her portrait, and she showed them as much as decency allowed. “We had better go and see her,” cried Socrates; “of course what beggars description can't very well be learned by hearsay.” “Come with me at once,” returned his informant. So off they went to Theodote/'s house, where they found her posing before a painter, and looked on.When the painter had finished, Socrates said: “My friends, ought we to be more grateful to Theodote/ for showing us her beauty, or she to us for looking at it? Does the obligation rest with her, if she profits more by showing it, but with us, if we profit more by looking?” When someone answered that this was a fair way of putting it, “Well now,” he went on, “she already
Thebes (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 11
ds?”“By all means — if you persuade me.”“And how am I to persuade you?”“That you will find out and contrive for yourself, if you want my help.”“Come and see me often, then.” “Ah!” said Socrates, making fun of his own leisurely habits, “it's not so easy for me to find time. For I have much business to occupy me, private and public; and I have the dear girls, who won't leave me day or night; they are studying potions with me and spells.” “Indeed! do you understand these things too, Socrates?”“Why, what is the reason that master Apollodorus and Antisthenes never leave me, do you suppose? And why do Cebes and Simmias come to me from Thebes? I assure you these things don't happen without the help of many potions and spells and magic wheels.” “Do lend me your wheel, that I may turn it first to draw you.”“But of course I don't want to be drawn to you: I want you to come to me.”“Oh, I'll come: only mind you welcome me.”“Oh, you shall be
Olympia (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 12
On noticing that Epigenes, one of his companions, was in poor condition, for a young man, he said: “You look as if you need exercise,i)diw/ths is one who is ignorant of any profession or occupation: i)diwtikw=s e)/xein here means to be ignorant of athletic training. Epigenes.”“Well,” he replied, “I'm not an athlete, Socrates.”“Just as much as the competitors entered for Olympia,” he retorted. “Or do you count the life and death struggle with their enemies, upon which, it may be, the Athenians will enter, but a small thing? Why, many, thanks to their bad condition, lose their life in the perils of war or save it disgracefully: many, just for this same cause, are taken prisoners, and then either pass the rest of their days, perhaps, in slavery of the hardest kind, or, after meeting with cruel sufferings and paying, sometimes, more than they have, live on, destitute and in misery. Many, again, by their bodily weakness earn infamy, being thought cowards. Or do you despise these
Boeotia (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 13
it's too cold for washing,” objected the other.“Then do your servants complain when they use it both for drinking and washing?”“Oh no: indeed I have often felt surprised that they are content with it for both these purposes.”“Which is the warmer to drink, the water in your house or Epidaurus water?”The hot spring in the precincts of Asclepius' temple at Epidaurus.“Epidaurus water.”“And which is the colder to wash in, yours or Oropus water?”The spring by the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus in Boeotia.“Oropus water.”“Then reflect that you are apparently harder to please than servants and invalids.” When someone punished his footman severely, he asked why he was angry with his man.“Because he's a glutton and he's a fool,” said the other: “he's rapacious and he's lazy.”“Have you ever considered, then, which deserves the more stripes, the master or the man?” When someone was afraid of the journey to Olympia, he said:“Why do you fear the distance? When yo
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 13
apacious and he's lazy.”“Have you ever considered, then, which deserves the more stripes, the master or the man?” When someone was afraid of the journey to Olympia, he said:“Why do you fear the distance? When you are at home, don't you spend most of the day in walking about? on your way there you will take a walk before lunch, and another before dinner, and then take a rest. Don't you know that if you put together the walks you take in five or six days, you can easily cover the distance from Athens to Olympia? It is more comfortable, too, to start a day early rather than a day late, since to be forced to make the stages of the journey unduly long is unpleasant; but to take a day extra on the way makes easy going. So it is better to hurry over the start than on the road.” When another said that he was worn out after a long journey, he asked him whether he had carried a load.“Oh no,” said the man; “only my cloak.”“Were you alone, or had you a footman with you?”“I had.”
Epidauros (search for this): book 3, chapter 13
hing?”“Oh no: indeed I have often felt surprised that they are content with it for both these purposes.”“Which is the warmer to drink, the water in your house or Epidaurus water?”The hot spring in the precincts of Asclepius' temple at Epidaurus.“Epidaurus water.”“And which is the colder to wash in, yours or Oropus water?”The springEpidaurus.“Epidaurus water.”“And which is the colder to wash in, yours or Oropus water?”The spring by the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus in Boeotia.“Oropus water.”“Then reflect that you are apparently harder to please than servants and invalids.” When someone punished his footman severely, he asked why he was angry with his man.“Because he's a glutton and he's a fool,” said the other: “he's rapacious and he's lazy.”“Have you evEpidaurus water.”“And which is the colder to wash in, yours or Oropus water?”The spring by the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus in Boeotia.“Oropus water.”“Then reflect that you are apparently harder to please than servants and invalids.” When someone punished his footman severely, he asked why he was angry with his man.“Because he's a glutton and he's a fool,” said the other: “he's rapacious and he's lazy.”“Have you ever considered, then, which deserves the more stripes, the master or the man?” When someone was afraid of the journey to Olympia, he said:“Why do you fear the distance? When you are at home, don't you spend most of the day in walking about? on your way there you will t
Olympia (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 13
e was angry with his man.“Because he's a glutton and he's a fool,” said the other: “he's rapacious and he's lazy.”“Have you ever considered, then, which deserves the more stripes, the master or the man?” When someone was afraid of the journey to Olympia, he said:“Why do you fear the distance? When you are at home, don't you spend most of the day in walking about? on your way there you will take a walk before lunch, and another before dinner, and then take a rest. Don't you know that if you put together the walks you take in five or six days, you can easily cover the distance from Athens to Olympia? It is more comfortable, too, to start a day early rather than a day late, since to be forced to make the stages of the journey unduly long is unpleasant; but to take a day extra on the way makes easy going. So it is better to hurry over the start than on the road.” When another said that he was worn out after a long journey, he asked him whether he had carried a load.“Oh no,”
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 2
is obvious from his behaviour. I fancy he has prepared a noble exordium to his addresses, with due care not to give the impression that he is indebted to anyone for his knowledge. No doubt he will begin his speech with this introduction: “‘Men of Athens, I have never yet learnt anything from anyone, nor when I have been told of any man's ability in speech and in action, have I sought to meet him, nor have I been at pains to find a teacher among the men who know. On the contrary, I have constantlce of it. Nevertheless I shall recommend to your consideration anything that comes into my head.’ “This exordium might be adapted so as to suit candidates for the office of public physician. They might begin their speeches in this strain:“‘Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians; for I have constantly avoided learning anything from the physicians, and even the appearance of having studied their art. Nevertheless I ask you to appoin
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 2
escape being slaves.”“Upon my word, Socrates, I did feel confident that I was a student of a philosophy that would provide me with the best education in all things needful to one who would be a gentleman. But you can imagine my dismay when I realise that in spite of all my pains I am even incapable of answering a question about things that one is bound to know, and yet find no other way that will lead to my improvement.”Hereupon Socrates exclaimed: “Tell me, Euthydemus, have you ever been to Delphi?”“Yes, certainly; twice.”“Then did you notice somewhere on the temple the inscription ‘Know thyself'?”“I did.”“And did you pay no heed to the inscription, or did you attend to it and try to consider who you were?”“Indeed I did not; because I felt sure that I knew that already; for I could hardly know anything else if I did not even know myself.” “And what do you suppose a man must know to know himself, his own name merely? Or must he consider what sort of a creatur
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 4
known to gain a verdict of acquittal, he rejected utterly the familiar chicanery of the courts; and though he might easily have gained a favourable verdict by even a moderate indulgence in such stratagems, he chose to die through his loyalty to the laws rather than to live through violating them. Such views frequently found expression in his conversations with different persons; I recollect the substance of one that he had with Hippias of Elis concerning Justice. Hippias, who had not been in Athens for a considerable time, found Socrates talking: he was saying that if you want to have a man taught cobbling or building or smithing or riding, you know where to send him to learn the craft: some indeed declare that if you want to train up a horse or an ox in the way he should go, teachers abound. And yet, strangely enough, if you want to learn Justice yourself, or to have your son or servant taught it, you know not where to go for a teacher. When Hippias heard this, “How now?” he cried in
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