e statue actually
blink. (39) And yet, may Heaven help me! my good sirs, I think, between
ourselves, the culprit must have bestowed a kiss on Cleinias, than which
love's flame asks no fiercer fuel. (40) So insatiable a thing it is
and so suggestive of mad fantasy. (And for this reason held perhaps in
higher honour, because of all external acts the close of lip with lip
bears the same name as that of soul with soul in love.) (41) Wherefore,
say I, let every one who wishes to be master of himself and sound of
soul abstain from kisses imprinted on fair lips. (42)

(36) Lit. "creeping down beside his ears." Cf. "Od." xi. 319:

{prin sphoin upo krotaphoisin ioulous anthesai pukasai te genus euanthei
lakhne.}

"(Zeus destroyed the twain) ere the curls had bloomed beneath
their temples, and darked their chins with the blossom of youth."
--Butcher and Lang. Cf. Theocr. xv. 85: {praton ioulon apo
krotaphon kataballon}, "with the first down upon his cheeks"
(Lang); Aesch. "Theb." 534.

(37) {pros to opisthen}, perhaps = "ad posteriorem capitis partem,"
which would be more applicable to Critobulus, whose whiskers were
just beginning to grow, than to Callias. Possibly we should read
(after Pollux, ii. 10) {peri ten upenen}, "on the upper lip." See
Plat. "Protag." 309 B; "Il." xxiv. 348; "Od." x. 279.

(38) Cf. Pind. "Pyth." x. 75.

(39) See "Cyrop." I. iv. 28; Shakesp. "Ven. and Ad." 89: "But when her
lips were ready for his pay, he winks, and turns his lips another
way."

(40) Or, "a kiss which is to passion as dry combustious matter is to
fire," Shakesp. ib. 1162.

(41) Or, "is namesake of the love within the soul of lovers." The
whole passage, involving a play on the words {philein
phileisthai}, "where kisses rain without, love reigns within," is
probably to be regarded as a gloss. Cf. "Mem." I. iii. 13.

(42) Cf. "Mem." I. iii. 8-14.

Then Charmides: Oh! Socrates, why will you scare your friends with these
hobgoblin terrors, (43) bidding us all beware of handsome faces,
whilst you yourself--yes, by Apollo, I will swear I saw you at the
schoolmaster's (44) that time when both of you were poring over one
book, in which you searched for something, you and Critobulus, head to
head, shoulder to shoulder bare, as if incorporate? (45)

(43) Cf. Plat. "Crit." 46 D; "Hell." IV. iv. 17; Arist. "Birds," 1245.

(44) "Grammarian's." Plat. "Protag." 312 B; 32