[327b]
After we had
said our prayers and seen the spectacle we were starting for town when
Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, caught sight of us from a distance as we
were hastening homeward1 and ordered
his boy2 run and bid us to wait3 for
him, and the boy caught hold4 of my himation from behind and said,
“Polemarchus wants you to wait.” And I turned around and
asked where his master5 was. “There he
is,” he said, “behind you, coming this way. Wait for
him.” “So we will,” said Glaucon,
1 “Headed homeward” is more exact and perhaps better.
2 A Greek gentleman would always be so attended. Cf. Charmides 155 A, Meno 82 B, Protagoras 310 C, Demosthenes xlvii. 36.
3 The “bounder” in Theophrastus, Char. xi. (xvii.), if he sees persons in a hurry will ask them to wait.
4 Charmides 153 B, Parmenides 126 A, 449 B.
5 “Ipse,” Cf. Protagoras 314 D; “ipse dixit;” “Now you are not ‘ipse,’ for I am he.”—Shakes.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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