[26] The {eispnelas} in relation to the {aitas}, the Inspirer to the
Hearer. Cf. Theocr. xii. 13; Ael. "V. H." iii. 12. See Muller,
"Dorians," ii. 300 foll.

[27] {philokaloterous}. Cf. Plat. "Phaedr." 248 D; "Criti." 111 E;
Aristot. "Eth. N." iv. 4. 4; x. 9. 3.

[28] Lit. "they feel most awe of what they most desire."

[29] Cf. "Mem." I. iii. 9.

Cease, therefore, your perplexity, O Socrates, abandon fears and
doubts, believe and know that this thing of which I make great boast,
my beauty, has power to confer some benefit on humankind.

Once more, let no man dare dishonour beauty, merely because the flower
of it soon fades, since even as a child has growth in beauty, so is it
with the stripling, the grown man, the reverend senior.[30] And this
the proof of my contention. Whom do we choose to bear the sacred
olive-shoot[31] in honour of Athena?--whom else save beautiful old
men? witnessing thereby[32] that beauty walks hand in hand as a
companion with every age of life, from infancy to eld.

[30] Cf. ib. III. iii. 12.

[31] Cf. Aristoph. "Wasps," 544.

[32] Or, "beauty steps in attendance lovingly hand in hand at every
season of the life of man." So Walt Whitman, passim.