PHAEDRUS: What name would you assign to PHAEDRUS: But there is also a friend of yours them?
who ought not to be forgotten.
SOCRATES: Wise, I may not call them; for that is SOCRATES: Who is he?
a great name which belongs to God alone,—lovers of wisdom or philosophers is their modest PHAEDRUS: Isocrates the fair:—What message and befitting title.
will you send to him, and how shall we describe him?
PHAEDRUS: Very suitable.
SOCRATES: Isocrates is still young, Phaedrus; but SOCRATES: And he who cannot rise above his I am willing to hazard a prophecy concerning own compilations and compositions, which he him.
has been long patching and piecing, adding some and taking away some, may be justly called poet PHAEDRUS: What would you prophesy?
or speech-maker or law-maker.
SOCRATES: I think that he has a genius which PHAEDRUS: Certainly.
soars above the orations of Lysias, and that his character is cast in a finer mould. My impres-SOCRATES: Now go and tell this to your com-sion of him is that he will marvellously improve panion.
as he grows older, and that all former rhetoricians will be as children in comparison of him.
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