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| タイトル | ： 第21回 |
| 投稿日 | ： 2004/02/14(Sat) 14:08 |
| 投稿者 | ： 惣田正明 <vem13077@nifty.ne.jp> |
第21回テキスト
---はじめ---
Glaucon - CEPHALUS - SOCRATES
Accordingly we went with Polemarchus to his house; and there
we found his brothers Lysias and Euthydemus, and with them
Thrasymachus the Chalcedonian, Charmantides the Paeanian, and
Cleitophon the son of Aristonymus. There too was Cephalus the
father of Polemarchus, whom I had not seen for a long time,
and I thought him very much aged. He was seated on a
cushioned chair, and had a garland on his head, for he had
been sacrificing in the court; and there were some other
chairs in the room arranged in a semicircle, upon which we
sat down by him. He saluted me eagerly, and then he said: --
You don't come to see me, Socrates, as often as you ought: If
I were still able to go and see you I would not ask you to
come to me. But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and
therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. For let me
tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,
the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Do not then deny my request, but make our house your resort
and keep company with these young men; we are old friends,
and you will be quite at home with us.
I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better,
Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as
travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to
go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth
and easy, or rugged and difficult. And this is a question
which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that
time which the poets call the 'threshold of old age' --Is
life harder towards the end, or what report do you give of
it?
---終わり---