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Companion. Where do you come from, Socrates? And yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have been in chase of the fair Alcibiades. I saw the day before yesterday; and he had got a beard like a man-and he is a man, as I may tell you in your ear. But I thought that he was still very charming.Socrates. What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who saysYouth is most charming when the beard first appears?And that is now the charm of Alcibiades.Com. Well, and how do matters proceed? Have you been visiting him, and was he gracious to you?Soc. Yes, I thought that he was very gracious; and especially to-day, for I have just come from him, and he has been helping me in an argument. But shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid no attention to him, and several times I quite forgot that he was present.Com. What is the meaning of this? Has anything happened between you and him? For surely you cannot have discovered a fairer love than he is; certainly not in this city of Athens.Soc. Yes, much fairer.Com. What do you mean-a citizen or a foreigner?Soc. A foreigner.Com. Of what country?Soc. Of Abdera.Com. And is this stranger really in your opinion a fairer love than the son of Cleinias?Soc. And is not the wiser always the fairer, sweet friend?Com. But have you really met, Socrates, with some wise one?Soc. Say rather, with the wisest of all living men, if you are willing to accord that title to Protagoras.Com. What! Is Protagoras in Athens?Soc. Yes; he has been here two days.Com. And do you just come from an interview with him?Soc. Yes; and I have heard and said many things.Com. Then, if you have no engagement, suppose that you sit down tell me what passed, and my attendant here shall give up his place to you.Soc. To be sure; and I shall be grateful to you for listening.Com. Thank you, too, for telling us.Soc. That is thank you twice over. Listen then: -Last night, or rather very early this morning, Hippocrates, the son of Apollodorus and the brother of Phason, gave a tremendous thump with his staff at my door; some one opened to him, and he came rushing in and bawled out: Socrates, are you awake or asleep?I knew his voice, and said: Hippocrates, is that you? and do you bring any news?Good news, he said; nothing but good.Delightful, I said; but what is the news? and why have you come hither at this unearthly hour?He drew nearer to me and said: Protagoras is come.Yes, I replied; he came two days ago: have you only just heard of his arrival?Yes, by the gods, he said; but not until yesterday evening.At the same time he felt for the truckle-bed, and sat down at my feet, and then he said: Yesterday quite late in the evening, on my return from Oenoe whither I had gone in pursuit of my runaway slave Satyrus, as I meant to have told you, if some other matter had not come in the way;-on my return, when we had done supper and were about to retire to rest, my brother said to me: Protagoras is come. I was going to you at once, and then I thought that the night was far spent. But the moment sleep left me after my fatigue, I got up and came hither direct.I, who knew the very courageous madness of the man, said: What is the matter? Has Protagoras robbed you of anything

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