PARTS:
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Part 2
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Written in 380 B.C. by
Plato
(428-347 B.C.)
This version originally published in
2005
by
Infomotions, Inc.
Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
This document is distributed under the GNU Public License.
Persons of the dialogue: Socrates, who is the narrator; Charmides; Chaerephon; Critias. Scene: The Palaestra of Taureas, which is near the Porch of the King Archon.
Yesterday evening I returned from the army at Potidaea, and having been a good while away, I thought that I should like to go and look at my old haunts. So I went into the palaestra of Taureas, which is over against the temple adjoining the porch of the King Archon, and there I found a number of persons, most of whom I knew, but not all. My visit was unexpected, and no sooner did they see me entering than they saluted me from afar on all sides; and Chaerephon, who is a kind of madman, started up and ran to me, seizing my hand, and saying, How did you escape, Socrates?-(I should explain that an engagement had taken place at Potidaea not long before we came away, of which the news had only just reached Athens.)
You see, I replied, that here I am.
There was a report, he said, that the engagement was very severe, and that many of our acquaintance had fallen.
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