l from the fair and noble
character of your friend, as from the fact that you invite his father to
share your life and intercourse. (23) Since no part of these is hidden
from the father by the fair and noble lover.

(19) For Aphrodite Ourania and Pandemos see Plat. "Symp." 180.

(20) Lit. "that is believed to be the same." See Cic. "De N. D." iii.
16. Cf. Aesch. "Prom." 210 (of Themis and Gaia), {pollon onomaton
morphe mia}.

(21) e.g. to Aphrodite Pandemos a white goat, {mekas leuke}, but to
Aphrodite Ourania a heifer, and {thusiai nephaliai}, offerings
without wine, i.e. of water, milk, and honey. Schol. to Soph.
"Oed. Col." 100; Lucian, lxvii. "Dial. Mer." 7. 1.

(22) Lit. "by Eros."

(23) Cf. Plat. "Prot." 318 A; Aristoph. "Thesmoph." 21, "learned
conversazioni."

Hermogenes broke in: By Hera, Socrates, I much admire you for many
things, and now to see how in the act of gratifying Callias you are
training him in duty and true excellence. (24)

(24) Lit. "teaching him what sort of man he ought to be." This, as we
know, is the very heart and essence of the Socratic (= {XS})
method. See "Mem." I. ii. 3.

Why, yes (he said), if only that his cup of happiness may overflow, I
wish to testify to him how far the love of soul is better than the love
of body.

Without friendship, (25) as we full well know, there is no society of
any worth. And this friendship, what is it? On the part of those whose
admiration (26) is bestowed upon the inner disposition, it is well named
a sweet and voluntary compulsion. But among those whose desire (26) is
for the body, there are not a few who blame, nay hate, the ways of their
beloved ones. And even where attachment (26) clings to both, (27) even
so the bloom of beauty after all does quickly reach its prime; the
flower withers, and when that fails, the affection which was based upon
it must also wither up and perish. But the soul, with every step she
makes in her onward course towards deeper wisdom, grows ever worthier of
love.

(25) Lit. "That without love no intercourse is worth regarding, we all
know."

(26) N.B.--{agamenon, epithumounton, sterxosi}. Here, as often, the
author seems to have studied the {orthoepeia} of Prodicus. See
"Mem." II. i. 24.

(27) i.e. "body and character."

Ay, and in the enjoyment of external beauty a sort of surfeit is
engendered. Just as the eater's appetite palls through repletion with
re