You’ve come in the nick of time. I’m in a fix.
Though walking up and down, like Plato, I’ve
Found nothing clever: but my legs are tired.[584]
Amphis, in his Dexidemides, said:
Plato, all you can do is to frown, drawing up your eyebrows severely, like a shellfish.[585]
The psychological yearning of the Phaidon, perpetually interrupted by cold currents of scepticism, must have found an echo in Plato’s school-teaching, as the following dialogues from Comedy show[585]:—
A. My mortal frame grew dry:
My deathless part rushed forth into the air.
B. Why, bless us, are we in the school of Plato?
And