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We thus find that the outlines of the story of "Lysis" tally with what we know about
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Turn to the opening scenes of the 'Lysis' and the 'Charmides.'
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The next scene from the 'Lysis' introduces us to another wrestling-ground in the neighbourhood of
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Turn to the opening scenes of the 'Lysis' and the 'Charmides.'
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The next scene from the 'Lysis' introduces us to another wrestling-ground in the neighbourhood of
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis and therefore, after the initial conversation, hides himself behind the surrounding listeners.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis and therefore, after the initial conversation, hides himself behind the surrounding listeners.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Lysis, Mr. Klug, autolysis, Marmelzot chirped, devoting a full second to each of the four syllables.
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But all the different ways in which this statement may be understood are set aside, like the definitions of courage in the Laches, or of friendship in the Lysis, or of temperance in the Charmides.
Theaetetus 2007
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So by showing Lysis that he isn't already wise, by getting him to recognize that he doesn't know, Socrates sets him on the road to philosophy (cf. Sophist 231b3-8).
Plato on Friendship and Eros Reeve, C. D. C. 2007
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