her is broiling under shade.... But what is it you keep
on laughing at--the wish on my part to reduce to moderate size a paunch
a trifle too rotund? Is that the source of merriment? (39) Perhaps you
are not aware, my friends, that Charmides--yes! he there--caught me only
the other morning in the act of dancing?

(31) "Bearing a weighty and serious brow."

(32) "Like your runner of the mile race." Cf. Plat. "Prot." 335 E.

(33) Or, "resolute exercise of the whole body." See Aristot. "Pol."
viii. 4. 9; "Rhet." i. 5. 14.

(34) Or, "be dependent on a fellow-gymnast." "Pol. Lac." ix. 5; Plat.
"Soph." 218 B; "Laws," 830 B; "Symp." 217 B, C.

(35) Or, "to strip in public when my hair turns gray." Socrates was
(421 B.C.) about 50, but is pictured, I think, as an oldish man.

(36) See Aristot. "H. A." ix. 45. 1; "Econ." viii. 13.

(37) Passage referred to by Diog. Laert. ii. 5. 15; Lucian, "de Salt."
25; Plut. "Praec. San." 496.

(38) "Take my exercise."

(39) Zeune cf. Max. Tyr. "Diss." vii. 9; xxxix. 5.

Yes, that I will swear to (the other answered), and at first I stood
aghast, I feared me you had parted with your senses; but when I heard
your explanation, pretty much what you have just now told us, I went
home and--I will not say, began to dance myself (it is an accomplishment
I have not been taught as yet), but I fell to sparring, (40) an art of
which I have a very pretty knowledge.

(40) "Sparring," etc., an art which Quintil. "Inst. Or." i. 11, 17,
attributes to Socrates. Cf. Herod. vi. 129 concerning
Hippocleides; and Rich, "Dict. of Antiq." s.v. "Chironomia."

That's true, upon my life! (exclaimed the jester). One needs but look at
you to see there's not a dram of difference between legs and shoulders.
(41) I'll be bound, if both were weighed in the scales apart, like "tops
and bottoms," the clerks of the market (42) would let you off scot-free.

(41) Lit. "your legs are equal in weight with your shoulders." Cf.
"Od." xviii. 373, {elikes... isophoroi boes}, "of equal age and
force to bear the yoke."--Butcher and Lang.

(42) See Boeckh, "Public Economy of Athens," p. 48; Aristoph.
"Acharn." 723; Lys. 165, 34.

Then Callias: O Socrates, do please invite me when you begin your
dancing lessons. I will be your vis-a-vis, (43) and take lessons with
you.

(43) Cf. "Anab." V. iv. 12.

Come on (the jester shouted), give us a tune upon the pipe, and let me
sho