hand on the trade to me as
your successor?"

I will, upon my word, I will (he answered): since I see that you have
practised to some purpose, nay elaborated, an art which is the handmaid
to this other.

And what may that be? asked Antisthenes.

Soc. The art of the procurer. (99)

(99) Cf. Plat. "Theaet." 150 A; Aristot. "Eth. N." v. 2, 13; Aeschin.
3, 7; Plut. "Solon," 23.

The other (in a tone of deep vexation): Pray, what thing of the sort are
you aware I ever perpetrated?

Soc. I am aware that it was you who introduced our host here, Callias,
to that wise man Prodicus; (100) they were a match, you saw, the one
enamoured of philosophy, and the other in need of money. It was you
again, I am well enough aware, who introduced him once again to Hippias
(101) of Elis, from whom he learnt his "art of memory"; (102) since
which time he has become a very ardent lover, (103) from inability to
forget each lovely thing he sets his eyes on. And quite lately, if I
am not mistaken, it was you who sounded in my ears such praise of our
visitor from Heraclea, (104) that first you made me thirst for his
society, and then united us. (105) For which indeed I am your debtor,
since I find him a fine handsome fellow and true gentleman. (106) And
did you not, moreover, sing the praises of Aeschylus of Phlius (107) in
my ears and mine in his?--in fact, affected us so much by what you said,
we fell in love and took to coursing wildly in pursuit of one another
like two dogs upon a trail. (108)

(100) Or, "the sage," "the sophist." See "Mem." I. vi. 13; II. i. 21.

(101) See "Mem." IV. iv. 5; and for his art of memory cf. Plat. "Hipp.
min." 368 D; "Hipp. maj." 285 E.

(102) The "memoria technica" (see Aristot. "de An." iii. 3, 6), said
to have been invented by Simonides of Ceos. Cic. "de Or." ii. 86;
"de Fin." ii. 32; Quinct. xi. 2. 559.

(103) Or, "has grown amorous to a degree" (al. "an adept in love's
lore himself." Cf. Plat. "Rep." 474 D, "an authority in love."--
Jowett) "for the simple reason he can't forget each lovely thing
he once has seen." Through the "ars memoriae" of Hippias, it
becomes an "idee fixe" of the mind.

(104) Perhaps Zeuxippus. See Plat. "Prot." 318 B. Al. Zeuxis, also a
native of Heraclea. See "Mem." I. iv. 3; "Econ." x. 1.

(105) Or, "introduced him to me." Cf. "Econ." iii. 14; Plat. "Lach."
200 D.

(106) "An out-and-out {kalos te kagathos}."

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