morphe mia}.

[21] e.g. to Aphrodite Pandemos a white goat, {mekas leuke}, but to
Aphrodite Ourania a heifer, and {thusiai nephaliai}, offerings
without wine, i.e. of water, milk, and honey. Schol. to Soph.
"Oed. Col." 100; Lucian, lxvii. "Dial. Mer." 7. 1.

[22] Lit. "by Eros."

[23] Cf. Plat. "Prot." 318 A; Aristoph. "Thesmoph." 21, "learned
conversazioni."

Hermogenes broke in: By Hera, Socrates, I much admire you for many
things, and now to see how in the act of gratifying Callias you are
training him in duty and true excellence.[24]

[24] Lit. "teaching him what sort of man he ought to be." This, as we
know, is the very heart and essence of the Socratic (= {XS})
method. See "Mem." I. ii. 3.

Why, yes (he said), if only that his cup of happiness may overflow, I
wish to testify to him how far the love of soul is better than the
love of body.

Without friendship,[25] as we full well know, there is no society of
any worth. And this friendship, what is it? On the part of those whose
admiration[26] is bestowed upon the inner disposition, it is well
named a sweet and voluntary compulsion. But among those whose
desire[26] is for the body, there are not a few who blame, nay hate,
the ways of their beloved ones. And even where attachment[26] clings