Plato was then about twenty-eight years old; a rich young man, rich also in intellectual gifts; and what he saw and heard from and about Socrates afforded the correction his opulent genius needed, and made him the most serious of writers. In many things he was as unlike as possible to the teacher--rude and rough as some failure of his own old sculptor's workshop--who might seem in his own person to have broken up the harmonious grace of the Greek type, and carried people one step into a world already in reaction against the easy Attic temper, a world in which it might be necessary to go far below the surface for the beauty of which those homely lips had discoursed so much. Perhaps he acted all the more surely as a corrective force on Plato, henceforward an opponent of the [98] obviously successful mental habits of the day, with an unworldliness which, a personal trait in Plato himself there acquired, will ever be of the very essence of Platonism.--"Many are called, but few chosen": Narthêkophoroi men polloi, bakchoi de te pauroi.+ He will have, as readers of The Republic know, a hundred precepts of self-repression for others--the self-repression of every really tuneable member of a chorus; and he begins by almost effacing himself. All that is best and largest in his own matured genius he identifies with his master; and when we speak of Plato generally what we are really thinking of is the Platonic Socrates. NOTES 79. +Transliteration: epagôgê. Liddell and Scott definition: "a bringing on, to, or in . . . argument from induction." 80. +Transliteration: peri physeôs historian. E-text editor's translation: "inquiry into nature." Plato, Phaedo 96a. 81. +Transliteration: panta diakosmei, kai pantôn aitios estin. Pater's translation: "arranges and is the cause of all things." Plato, Phaedo 97c, offers a close paraphrase of Anaxagoras' saying. 83. +Transliteration: Auto kath' hauto zêtein ti pot' estin aretê. Pater's translation: "to seek out what virtue is, itself, in and by itself." Plato, Meno 100b. 83. +Transliteration: Mêden estin agathon ho ouk epistêmê periechei. Pater's translation: "There is no good thing which knowledge does not comprehend." Plato, Meno 87d. 84. *Tauton pantachou eidos--holon kai hygies--hen kata pantôn, dia pantôn, epi pasi-kath' holou. Pater's translation: "One and the same species in every place: whole and sound: one, in regard to, and through, and upon, all particular instances of it: catholic." Perhaps Pater is combining phrases here; only the first phrase was locatable. Plato, Meno 72d. 84. +Transliteration: kath' hekastên tôn praxeôn, kai tôn hêlikiôn pros hekaston ergon, hekastô hêmôn. Pater's translation: "to every several act, and to each period of life, in regard to each thing we have to do, in each one of us." Plato, Meno 72a.