To sup with Alcibiades; he sails with the expedition for Sicily
in a few days; this is his farewell entertainment.

CALLIDEMUS.
So much the better; I should say, so much the worse. That cursed
Sicilian expedition! And you were one of the young fools (See
Thucydides, vi. 13.) who stood clapping and shouting while he was
gulling the rabble, and who drowned poor Nicias's voice with your
uproar. Look to it; a day of reckoning will come. As to
Alcibiades himself--

SPEUSIPPUS.
What can you say against him? His enemies themselves acknowledge
his merit.

CALLIDEMUS.
They acknowledge that he is clever, and handsome, and that he was
crowned at the Olympic games. And what other merits do his
friends claim for him? A precious assembly you will meet at his
house, no doubt.

SPEUSIPPUS.
The first men in Athens, probably.

CALLIDEMUS.
Whom do you mean by the first men in Athens?

SPEUSIPPUS.
Callicles. (Callicles plays a conspicuous part in the Gorgias of
Plato.)