Becker,
"Charicles," 268 (Engl. trans.)

(17) {euphrosunas}, archaic or "poetical" = "joyance." See "Hiero,"
vi. 1.

The fittest place for a temple or an altar (he maintained) was some site
visible from afar, and untrodden by foot of man: (18) since it was a
glad thing for the worshipper to lift up his eyes afar off and offer up
his orison; glad also to wend his way peaceful to prayer unsullied. (19)

(18) e.g. the summit of Lycabettos, or the height on which stands the
temple of Phygaleia. Cf. Eur. "Phoen." 1372, {Pallados
khrusaspidos blepsas pros oikon euxato} of Eteocles.

(19) See Vitruvius, i. 7, iv. 5, ap. Schneid. ad loc.; W. L. Newman,
op. cit. i. 338.

IX

Being again asked by some one: could courage be taught, (1) or did
it come by nature? he answered: I imagine that just as one body is by
nature stronger than another body to encounter toils, so one soul by
nature grows more robust than another soul in face of dangers. Certainly
I do note that people brought up under the same condition of laws and
customs differ greatly in respect of daring. Still my belief is that by
learning and practice the natural aptitude may always be strengthened
towards courage. It is clear, for instance, that Scythians or
Thracians would not venture to take shield and spear and contend with
Lacedaemonians; and it is equally evident that Lacedaemonians would
demur to entering the lists of battle against Thracians if limited to
their light shields and javelins, or against Scythians without some
weapon more familiar than their bows and arrows. (2) And as far as I can
see, this principle holds generally: the natural differences of one man
from another may be compensated by artificial progress, the result of
care and attention. All which proves clearly that whether nature has
endowed us with keener or blunter sensibilities, the duty of all alike
is to learn and practise those things in which we would fain achieve
distinction.

(1) Or, "When some one retorted upon him with the question: 'Can
courage be taught?'" and for this problem see IV. vi. 10, 11;
"Symp." ii. 12; Plat. "Lach."; "Protag." 349; "Phaedr." 269 D; K.
Joel, op. cit. p. 325 foll.; Grote, "Plato," i. 468 foll., ii. 60;
Jowett, "Plato," i. 77, 119; Newman, op. cit. i. 343.

(2) Or, "against Thracians with light shields and javelins, or against
Scythians with bows and arrows"; and for the national arms of
these peop