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But now, when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man, how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people? Ought a man who has not strength enough to carry a hundred pound weight undertake to carry a burden that is much heavier?" "I would have done good service to my uncle," said Glaucon, "if he would have taken my advice."
Menon came after him, laughing, and Glaucon followed to care for them. "The sun is setting," said Menon. "It will soon be dark, and to-morrow are the games. They will keep us busy when they begin, so you must use your eyes to-day if you want to see the fair." He stopped on the hillside and looked down into the sacred place. "It is wonderful!" he said, half to himself. "The home of glory!
I ask Themistocles, Hermippus, and Glaucon to come to an inner room. I must examine this man. The matter is serious.” “Serious?” echoed the bewildered athlete, “I can vouch for Seuthes—an excellent Corinthian, come to Athens to sell some bales of wool—” “Answer, Glaucon,” Democrates’s voice was stern. “Has he no letters from you for Argos?” “Certainly.” “You admit it?”
Henceforth I shall look on Glaucon the Alcmæonid as an enemy of liberty.” “Phui!” almost shouted Phormio, whose sense of humour was keen, “a noble conspiracy! Glaucon the Fortunate calls on a Babylonish merchant by night. You say to plot against Athens. I say to buy his pretty wife a carpet.”
Democrates’s voice shook either with rage or with fear when he made shift to answer. “I see I’ve come to be incriminated and insulted. So be it. If I keep my pledge, at least suffer me to wish you and your ‘Cyprian’ a very good night.” Lycon good-humouredly lighted him to the door. “Why so hot? I’ll do you a service to-morrow. If Glaucon wrestles with me, I shall kill him.”
For those who are just entering are the advanced guard of the great beauty, as he is thought to be, of the day, and he is likely to be not far off himself. Who is he, I said; and who is his father? Charmides, he replied, is his name; he is my cousin, and the son of my uncle Glaucon: I rather think that you know him too, although he was not grown up at the time of your departure.
AND thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. I do not think, he said, that the way could have been shortened.
The Athenian, whose roving eye had just caught Cimon and Democrates in the audience, seemed never to hear him. “And you are passing stalwart. Still, be advised. I wouldn’t harm you, so drop out early.” Still no answer from Glaucon, whose clear eye seemed now to be wandering over the bare hills of Megara beyond.
She was so sweet and beautiful that Glaucon fell in love with her the very moment he first saw her; and when he was not playing his flute on the mountain he was thinking about Aglaia, and dreaming that some day he might have flocks of his own, and a dear little cottage down in the valley where he and Aglaia might live. "Aglaia had fallen in love with Glaucon just as he had with her.
“You go forth early, dearest Prexaspes,” spoke the Egyptian, throwing back her veil, and even in the starlight he saw the anxious flash of her eyes, “does the battle join so soon that you take so little sleep?” “It joins early, lady,” spoke Glaucon, his wits wandering. In the intensity of his purpose he had not thought of the partings with the people he must henceforth reckon foes.
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