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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: round to look at us--he was evidently wanting to come to us. For a time he
hesitated and had not the courage to come alone; but first of all, his
friend Menexenus, leaving his play, entered the Palaestra from the court,
and when he saw Ctesippus and myself, was going to take a seat by us; and
then Lysis, seeing him, followed, and sat down by his side; and the other
boys joined. I should observe that Hippothales, when he saw the crowd, got
behind them, where he thought that he would be out of sight of Lysis, lest
he should anger him; and there he stood and listened.
I turned to Menexenus, and said: Son of Demophon, which of you two youths
is the elder?
That is a matter of dispute between us, he said.
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