“SOCRATES.—We must needs wait then, _Alcibiades_, until we can learn how we ought to behave toward God and men. ALCIBIADES.—When shall this time come, _Socrates_? and who shall be the _instructor_? for I long to see _this man_ (τουτον τον ἀνθρωπον) whosoever he is. SOCRATES.—He it is who _careth for thee_ (ᾡ μελει περι σου); and I think, that as _Minerva_ in Homer (Iliad 5, 127) removed the _mist_ from the _eyes_ of _Diomedes_, that he might _well know_ both _gods_ and _men_; so it is necessary in the first place, that He should remove _the mist_ from _your soul_ that is now attached thereto; and next that He should apply _the means_ by which you shall know both _good_ and _evil_ in future; for now indeed you seem not to be able. ALCIBIADES.—Let him remove the mist, or whatever else it is, since I am prepared to decline none of his directions, _whosoever this man is_, (ὁστις ποτ’ έστιν ὁ ἀνθρωπος), provided I may be able to _become better_. SOCRATES.—Truly _that same person_ (κακεινος) _hath a wonderful regard for thee_. ALCIBIADES.—I think then, the best way will be to _postpone sacrificing_ until that time. SOCRATES.—You think right, for it is safer than to run so great a risk [of sacrificing improperly.] ALCIBIADES.—Then indeed, shall we give to THE GODS _crowns_ and other _legitimate offerings_, when I see that day coming, and _it will come in no long time_, THE GODS _willing_.” From the same work, to which we have been so much indebted, we cannot avoid extracting the following lines to the same purport, taken from the Hymn of Eupolis, another disciple of Socrates, as translated by _Wesley_, not the founder of Methodism, but his father, Dr. Hales remarks:— “And yet, a greater _Hero_ far (Unless great _Socrates_ could err) Shall _rise_ to _bless_, some _future day_, And _teach_ to _live_, and teach to _pray_.”