Lamprocles was violently angry with his mother, Socrates made him feel ashamed of himself, as I believe Xenophon has told us. When Plato’s brother Glaucon was desirous of entering upon politics, Socrates dissuaded him, as Xenophon relates, because of his want of experience ; but on the contrary he encouraged Charmides to take up politics because he had a gift that way.? He roused Iphicrates the general to a martial spirit by showing him how the fighting cocks of Midias the barber flapped their wings in defiance of those of Callias. | Glauconides demanded that he should be acquired for the state as if he were some pheasant or peacock. He used to say it was strange that, if you asked a man how many sheep he had, he could easily tell you the precise number ; whereas he could not name his friends or say how many he had, so slight was the value he set upon them. Seeing Euclides keenly interested in eristic arguments, he said to him: “ You will be able to get on with sophists, Euclides, but with men not at all.” For he thought there was no use in this sort of hair-splitting, as Plato shows us in the Euthydemus. Again, when Charmides offered him some slaves in order that he might derive an income from them, he declined the offer ; and according to some he scorned the beauty of Alcibiades. He would extol leisure as the best of possessions, according to Xenophon in the Sympostum. ‘There is, he said, only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance ; wealth and good birth bring their possessor no dignity, but on the contrary evil. At all events, when some one told him that Antisthenes’ mother