person who had the cure, he looked at me in such an inde- scribable manner, and was just going to ask a question. And at that moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare ! I caught -a sight of the inwards of his gar- ment, and took the flame. Then I could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Cydias understood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one 'not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him,' for I felt that I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled myself, and when he asked me if I knew the cure of the headache, I answered, but with an effort, that I did know. And what is it ? he said.

The cure for the headache. I replied that it was a kind of leaf, which required to be accompanied by a charm, and if a person would repeat the charm at the same time that he used the cure, he would be made whole ; but that without the charm the leaf would be of no avail.

The-n I wi"ll write out the charm from your dictation, he 156 said. .

With my consent ? I said, or without my consent ?

With your consent, Socrates, he said, laughing.

Very good, I said ; and are you quite sure that you know my name ?

I ought to know you, he replied, for there is a great deal said about you among my companions ; and I remember when I was a child seeing you in company with my cousin Critias.

I am glad to find that you remember me, I said ; for I shall now be more at home with you and shall be better able to explain the nature of the charm, about which I felt a difficulty before. For the charm will do more, Charmides, The eyes, as physicians tell us, cannot be cured without the head, nor the head without the body; than only cure the headache. I dare say that you have heard eminent physicians say to a patient who comes to them with bad eyes, that they cannot cure his eyes by them- selves, but that if his eyes are to be cured, his head must be treated ; and then again they say that to think of curing the head alone, and not the rest of the body also, is the height of folly. And arguing in this way they apply their methods to the whole body, and try to treat and heal the whole and