ing, never numb with cold, never hungry for breakfast ; from wine and from gross feeding and all other frivolities thou dost turn away. Ameipsias too, when he puts him on the stage wearing a cloak, says@: A. You come to join us, Socrates, worthiest of a small band and emptiest by far! You arearobust fellow. Where can we get you a proper coat ? B. Your sorry plight is an insult to the cobblers. A. And yet, hungry as he is, this man has never stooped to flatter. This disdainful, lofty spirit of his is also noticed by Aristophanes when he says ® : Because you stalk along the streets, rolling your eyes, and endure, barefoot, many a hardship, and gaze up at us [the clouds]. And yet at times he would even put on fine clothes to suit the occasion, as in Plato’s Symposium,’ where he is on his way to Agathon’s house. He showed equal ability in both directions, in persuading and dissuading men; thus, after conversing with Theaetetus about knowledge, he sent him away, as Plato says, fired with a divine impulse ; but when Euthyphro had indicted his father for manslaughter, Socrates, after some conversation with him upon piety, diverted him from his purpose. Lysis, again, he turned, by exhortation, into a most virtuous character. For he had the skill to draw his arguments from facts. And when his son