Recommended translations:

• The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1991, 2009).
• "Phaedrus," trans. M. Nichols, A. Nehamas, and P. Woodruff in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).

 

Excerpt:

Socrates
Dear Phaedrus, whither away, and where do you come from?

Phaedrus
From Lysias, Socrates, the son of Cephalus; and I am going for a walk outside the wall. For I spent a long time there with Lysias, sitting since early morning; and on the advice of your friend and mine, Acumenus, I am taking my walk on the roads; for he says they are less fatiguing than the streets.

Socrates
He is right, my friend. Then Lysias, it seems,was in the city?

Phaedrus
Yes, at Epicrates’ house, the one that belonged to Morychus, near the Olympieum.

Socrates
What was your conversation? But it is obvious that Lysias entertained you with his speeches.

Phaedrus
You shall hear, if you have leisure to walk along and listen.

Socrates
What? Don’t you believe that I consider hearing your conversation with Lysias
“a greater thing even than business,” as Pindar says?

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