Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 135d

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[135d]

Alcibiades
I do.

Socrates
How?

Alcibiades
If it be your wish, Socrates.

Socrates
That is not well said, Alcibiades.

Alcibiades
Well, what should I say?

Socrates
If it be God's will.

Alcibiades
Then I say it. And yet I say this besides, that we are like to make a change in our parts, Socrates, so that I shall have yours and you mine. For from this day onward it must be the case that I am your attendant, and you have me always in attendance on you.¹

1 παιδαγωγεῖν is used here simply in the sense of “following about as personal attendant.”

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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