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He proceeded: And now when the young hear all this said about

virtue and vice, and the way in which gods and men regard them,

how are their minds likely to be affected, my dear

Socrates,-those of them, I mean, who are quickwitted, and, like

bees on the wing, light on every flower, and from all that they

hear are prone to draw conclusions as to what manner of persons

they should be and in what way they should walk if they would

make the best of life? Probably the youth will say to himself in

the words of Pindar-

'Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier

tower which may be a fortress to me all my days?'