Had been delivered to initiates—
All this I hear from men within the crowd.
It fills me with warm love when I behold
With my soul’s sight, this agèd man, who thus
After the victories which love of fame
Had won for him could even then achieve
The greatest human task—to conquer self—
Therefore do I perceive within this place
The man to whom I wholly give myself,
Although I see him but in pictured form.