‘He crouched, though warrior bird, like slave, with drooping wings.’1 And he came to think that the work of Socrates was really a kind of provision of the gods for the care and salvation of youth.
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And speedily, from choosing such an associate, and giving ear to the words of a lover who was in the chase for no unmanly pleasures, and begged no kisses and embraces, but sought to expose the weakness of his soul and rebuke his vain and foolish pride,
1 The iamibc trimeter is of unknown authorship.
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