Edited by Giuseppe Tortora.
E mail: tortora@unina.it
As for speeches, no comparison. There is no other person like Socrates. To understand how things are - repeat Alcibiades - should be invoked ... Sileni and the Satyrs. His speeches
(hoi logo), in fact, resemble a great deal (homoiótatoí eisi) to Sileni (tois silenoîs), the statuettes that open (tois dioigoménois). Therefore, we must distinguish the external and internal.
They appear, at first (to protons), completely ridiculous (an geloíoi pany). Funny the words used (kai onoma), ridiculous expressions used (kai rhema). Socrates in fact does not talking about pack asses, of blacksmiths, of shoemakers, a tanner, and he seems to always say the same things using the very same words. So, who are not familiar with him, in the end, not understanding the object and purpose of what he says, his speeches can only laugh.
But this is only an outer jacket: like the skin of an arrogant Satyr (satýrou dé tina hybristoû doran).
If you can see them open (dioigoménous dè iDon n) ... if you can get in them ... No, not the usual speeches. They are the only ones, among those who listen, that inside have a thought (noun échontas Endon disposable ton logon). Speeches most divine (theiotátous)! Carriers, inside, a lot of images of virtue (pleîsta agálmat'aretês en hautoîs échontas). And then talk a broad spectrum: there is no aspect of human life that is not addressed. They discuss all those things right (epi pan) on which to reflect (Hoson prosékei skopein) who wants to become a perfect man: a man inwardly beautiful and good (to Mellonta kalo kagatô ésesthai).
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