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And yet I could not help wondering at his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness. I never imagined that I could have met with a man such as he is in wisdom and endurance. And therefore I could not be angry with him or renounce his company, any more than I could hope to win him. For I well knew that if Ajax could not be wounded by steel, much less he by money; and my only chance of captivating him by my personal attractions had failed. So I was at my wit's end; no one was ever more hopelessly enslaved by another. All this happened before he and I went on the expedition to Potidaea; there we messed together, and I had the opportunity of observing his extraordinary power of sustaining fatigue. His endurance was simply marvellous when, being cut off from our supplies, we were compelled to go without food—on such occasions, which often happen in time of war, he was superior not only to me but to everybody; there was no one to be compared to him. Yet at a festival he was the only person who had any real powers of enjoyment; though not willing to drink, he could if compelled beat us all at that,—wonderful to relate! no human being had ever seen Socrates drunk; and his powers, if I am not mistaken, will be tested before long. His fortitude in enduring cold was also surprising. There was a severe frost, for the winter in that region is really tremendous, and everybody else either remained indoors, or if they went out had on an amazing quantity of clothes, and were well shod, and had their feet swathed in felt and fleeces: in the midst of this, Socrates with his bare feet on the ice and in his ordinary dress marched better than the other soldiers who had shoes, and they looked daggers at him because he seemed to despise them.

Socrates
Were the works of Socrates actually all the product of a single individual? Or are they a collection of writings by various people some written long after the death of the historical person that have since been attributed to him?

>>14172619
I'm a Zoomer and I read Plato along with the entirety of the Greeks in yr 10 and loved them.

This retards just giving us a bad reputation.

>Socrates: ur gay
>homosexual: no I'm not
>Socrates: you would say the act of desiring other men by the sexual drives is homosexual?
>homosexual: I don't understand
>Socrates: Look at it this way
>homosexual: I'm ready
>Socrates: that if you were to walk by the pond and dip your toes into it, naturally you would be called a toe-dipper?
>homosexual: naturally
>Socrates: and if it were summer and you were to dive into body whole as the men do in Larissa then you would undoubtedly become wet and soaked your clothes?
>homosexual: quite so
>Socrates: And so you see in the prior you may say "nay not a toe", but in the latter you have become wet, undeniably wet as the atomists prove. You must accept the burden of wet clothes for the rest of your day, for the day is like the life of a man, just as man awakes and must grow into his strength, and learn anew if he is wise. To the afternoon he grows tired and further to his eventual night of uncontrollable sleep. So just as the man who dips in the pond may hide his wetness, the gay by not engaging may remain privately so and avoid of shame, but the man who bathes complete in the waters must remain wet for the day, so to must the homosexual remain the undeniable lowest of gay for the rest of his life, doomed to public scandal by scandalist acts. Irredeemably so.
>homosexual: I see your cunning with words is ever yet still so tricking and lying, for you have stunned me.
>Socrates: and rightfully so.
>homosexual: I don't know how but you have deceived my senses and you will regret this
>Socrates: do I understand you correctly?
>homosexual: Yes you do and I am proud that you know and I do as well for it is good you do and for it is good you have.
>Socrates: and so I understand you are an atheist?
>Homosexual: I believe you know that by now.
(I added this part:)*the homosexual left in a quick mess annoyed by his loss*

I also added the Greentext but in hindsight it wasn't necessary.

>>14148574
Did Socrates not admire war?