BOOK IIL  CHAP. XL                          115
 

CHAPTER   XI.
 

ARGUMENT.
 

SooRATES having heard of the beauty of a famous courtezan Theodota,
visits her with some of his disciples (§ 1), and finds her engaged with.a
painter. After instituting the inquiry whether they conferred or re¬
ceived greater favor by looking at so great beauty (§ 2, 3), Socrates
converses jestingly with Theodota upon the value of friends and the best
means of obtaining them (§ 4—9). Lasting friendship, he says, is not
secured by beauty of person and the arts of love alone, but by kindness
(§ 10—12). In the gratification of sensual desire the greatest modera¬
tion should be preserved, lest satiety and disgust ensue (§ 13, 14). The
interview is concluded by a playful dialogue between Theodota and
Socrates (§ 15—18).
 

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