duties, which the wife does not know, how can there be unanimity between the two? _Alk._--No: there cannot be. _Sokr._--Nor friendship, if unanimity and friendship go together? _Alk._--Apparently there cannot. _Sokr._--Then when men and women each perform their own special duties, there can be no friendship between them. Nor can a city be well administered, when each citizen performs his own special duties? or (which is the same thing) when each citizen acts justly? _Alk._--Not so: I think there may be friendship, when each person performs his or her own business. _Sokr._--Just now you said the reverse. What is this friendship or unanimity which we must understand and realise, in order to become good men? [Footnote 17: Plato, Alkib. i. p. 125 B. [Greek: O( au)to\s a)/ra tou/tô| ge tô=| lo/gô| kako/s te kai\ a)gatho/s.] Plato slides unconsciously here, as in other parts of his reasonings, _à dicto secundum quid, ad dictum simpliciter_.] [Footnote 18: Plato, Alkib. i. p. 126 A. [Greek: ti/ de/? ê)\n su\ kalei=s eu)bouli/an, ei)s ti/ e)stin?] _Alk._ [Greek: Ei)s to\ a)/meinon tê\n po/lin dioikei=n kai\ sô/zesthai.] _Sokr._ [Greek: A)meinon de\ dioikei=tai kai\ sô/zetai ti/nos paragignome/nou ê)\ a)pogignomenou?]] [Side-note: Alkibiades, puzzled and humiliated, confesses his ignorance. Encouragement given by Sokrates. It is an advantage to make such discovery in youth.] _Alk._--In truth, I am puzzled myself to say. I find myself in a state of disgraceful ignorance, of which I had no previous suspicion. _Sokr._--Do not be discouraged. If you had made this discovery when you were fifty years old, it would have been too late for taking care of yourself and applying a remedy: but at your age, it is the right time for making the discovery. _Alk._--What am I to do, now that I have made it? _Sokr._--You must answer my questions. If my auguries are just, we shall soon be both of us better for the process.[19] [Footnote 19: Plato, Alkib. i. 127 D-E. _Alk._ [Greek: A)lla\ ma\ tou\s theou/s, ou)d' au)to\s oi)=da o(/ ti le/gô, kinduneu/ô de\ kai\ pa/lai lelêthe/nai e)mauto\n ai)/schist' e)/chôn.] _Sokr._ [Greek: A)lla\ chrê\ thar)r(ei=n; ei) me\n ga\r au)to\ ê)=|sthou peponthô\s pentêkontae/tês, chalepo\n a)\n ê)=n soi e)pimelêthê=nai sautou=; nu=n de\ ê)\n e)/cheis ê(liki/an, au)/tê e)sti/n, e)n ê(=| dei= au)to\ ai)sthe/sthai.] _Alk._ [Greek: Ti/ ou)=n to\n ai(stho/menon chrê\ poiei=n?] _Sokr._ [Greek: _A)pokri/nesthai ta\ e)rôtô/mena_, kai\ e)a\n tou=to poiê=|s, a)\n theo\s e)the/lê|, ei)/ ti dei= kai\ tê=| e)mê=| mantei/a| pisteu/ein, su/ te ka)gô\ beltio/nôs schê/somen.]] [Side-note: Platonic Dialectic--its actual effect--its anticipated effect--applicable to the season of youth.]