And I believe that he will not be satisfied with wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold rhetoric, but that there is in him a divine inspi-as a temperate man and he only can bear and ration which will lead him to things higher still.
carry.—Anything more? The prayer, I think, is For he has an element of philosophy in his na-enough for me.
ture. This is the message of the gods dwelling in this place, and which I will myself deliver to PHAEDRUS: Ask the same for me, for friends Isocrates, who is my delight; and do you give should have all things in common.
the other to Lysias, who is yours.
SOCRATES: Let us go.
PHAEDRUS: I will; and now as the heat is abated let us depart.
SOCRATES: Should we not offer up a prayer first of all to the local deities?
PHAEDRUS: By all means.
SOCRATES: Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the 123
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