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柏拉图作品集·论勇气 ［古希腊］柏拉图 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 柏拉图作品集·论勇气 ［古希腊］柏拉图 * 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 责任编辑：郝刚 ※ 印张 12 千字 2003 年 12月第 1 版 2003 年 12 月第 1 次 印刷 印数 :__ ISBN L-YY-0159/B502.2 定价 2 元 Laches by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education, as often happens with the sons of great men, has been neglected; and they are resolved that their children shall have more care taken of them, than they received themselves at the hands of their fathers. At their request, Nicias and Laches have accompanied them to see a man named Stesilaus fighting in heavy armour. The two fathers ask the two generals what they think of this exhibition, and whether they would advise that their sons should acquire the accomplishment. Nicias and Laches are quite willing to give their opinion; but they suggest that Socrates should be invited to take part in the consultation. He is a stranger to Lysimachus, but is afterwards recognised as the son of his old friend Sophroniscus, with whom he never had a difference to the hour of his death. Socrates is also known to Nicias, to whom he had introduced the excellent Damon, musician and sophist, as a tutor for his son, and to Laches, who had witnessed his 1 heroic behaviour at th