Pagina 659 di 1391

Accordingly we went with Polemarchus to his house; and there we

found his brothers Lysias and Euthydemus, and with them

Thrasymachus the Chalcedonian, Charmantides the Paeanian, and

Cleitophon the son of Aristonymus. There too was Cephalus the

father of Polemarchus, whom I had not seen for a long time, and I

thought him very much aged. He was seated on a cushioned chair,

and had a garland on his head, for he had been sacrificing in the

court; and there were some other chairs in the room arranged in a

semicircle, upon which we sat down by him. He saluted me eagerly,

and then he said:-