Lysis

pubOne.info present you this new edition. No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, 'What is Friendship? ' any more than in the Charmides to the question, 'What is Temperance? ' There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middle-aged; in the Lysis he is advanced in years.