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Lysis

Socrates

In a newly opened wrestling school Socrates talks with the boys Lysis and Menexenus about friendship: is the friend the one who loves, the beloved, like of like, opposite of opposite? The successive hypotheses fail and the dialogue closes by noting that they have thought themselves friends without knowing what a friend is.

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English

Translated by Benjamin Jowett · 15 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1INTRODUCTION.15′
  2. 2Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 14′
  3. 3Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 24′
  4. 4Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 32′
  5. 5Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 44′
  6. 6Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 54′
  7. 7Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 62′
  8. 8Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 73′
  9. 9Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 82′
  10. 10Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 92′
  11. 11Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 103′
  12. 12Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 112′
  13. 13Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 124′
  14. 14Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 133′
  15. 15Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus. · 141′

Spanish

Translated by Patricio de Azcárate · 14 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 13′
  2. 2Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 24′
  3. 3Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 31′
  4. 4Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 43′
  5. 5Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 54′
  6. 6Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 62′
  7. 7Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 74′
  8. 8Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 83′
  9. 9Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 92′
  10. 10Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 103′
  11. 11Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 112′
  12. 12Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 124′
  13. 13Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 132′
  14. 14Sócrates – Hipotales – Ctesipo – Menexenes – Lisis · 142′
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