ADEIMANTOS: ( well shit, Sokrates ),

my elephant and i( we-being )i ( he says )

( hes stuck like that ) ( pokes man )

hm-mm ( man holds plushie elephant )

( seems pretty bad ) ( whats your advice? )

SOKRATES: first( even )therefore, ( for )that( man )wondering

( at the circumstance )that the wisdom-lovers

arent honored in the cities,

( it was teaching )( teach, you )the image( likeness ),

πρῶτον μὲν τοίνυν ἐκεῖνον τὸν θαυμάζοντα

ὅτι οἱ φιλόσοφοι οὐ τιμῶνται ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι

δίδασκέ τε τὴν εἰκόνα

ADEIMANTOS: ( and indeed, Sokrates )

( he wonders so hard the he regressed )

( he thinks youre a stuffed elephant )

( and making us eerie atmosphere )

are listening to the trains again,

( he calls beauty-calling whistling )

( also ) ( maybe its really a she in there ),

SOKRATES: and( indeed )( we try )( we would try )

( you were trying )( try, you )to persuade( him ),

that( it would be )many more wonderful-marvellous

( we were, they were, he was, we were saying ),

if( they )( women )were honored,

καὶ πειρῶ πείθειν ὅτι πολὺ ἂν θαυμαστότερον ἦν (489β)

εἰ ἐτιμῶντο.

ADEIMANTOS: ( he might not even disagree

with that ) ( but something tells us hes )

wondering what stories ( could really do )

( or whether there are any left to tell )

( he also insists he wears dresses )

HERA: would( we )i( being )not bring-forth into-the-world?

οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ τεκόμην;

ADEIMANTOS: ( but even if there are stories left,

he wonders ) do the travelers carry ( anything

of worth ) ( anything even related to him

or her ) ( and maybe they are in

a bad situation ) ( maybe

like yours, Sokrates )

( or yours, o goddess )

SAILORS: but still(we would teach)

(we will teach)(you-teach-learn-you),

ἀλλὰ διδάξω,

SOKRATES: ( how to draw-out

and how to understand )

what are their reasons,

SAILORS: he was saying,

ἔφη.

SOKRATES: to sleep across the country,

( to disappear ) ( from their own room ),

HERA: and( indeed )

your( dyad-moth for the burning flame ),

( your dyad-bookworm for the brain ),

having( o beauty- )called( all )alike,

( we )were( misleading, infatuating )

( and thereby doing hurt and damage )

there-and-then, into immortals,

καὶ σὴ κεκλημένη ἔμπης

ἦα ῥ᾽ ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν,

SOKRATES: and( indeed )that therefore

you speak truths( unconcealed ),

καὶ ὅτι τοίνυν τἀληθῆ λέγεις,

ADEIMANTOS: ( to say ) ( that even our perfect melody )

( couldnt deliver him from his emergency )

and when will this room be empty

( and neither from his distant cell )

( nor from his necessary sentences )

( could we save him ) ( although

we wished with all our heart we could )

SOKRATES: as the most-fitting( meet-suitable )of those

in philosophy( wisdom-loving ) ( would be )

useless( unprofitable, unserviceable ones )( to-by-for )the many,

ὡς ἄχρηστοι τοῖς πολλοῖς οἱ ἐπιεικέστατοι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ:

ADEIMANTOS: ( in dire circumstance )

and us two ( like ghosts

would have no use ) . . .

SOKRATES: however( urge-command-exhort, you )

( he was urging-commanding-exhorting )

( to accuse )give( them )credit for uselessness,

the( men who are )not( using-employing )

( consulting-as-an-oracle ),

τῆς μέντοι ἀχρηστίας τοὺς μὴ χρωμένους κέλευε αἰτιᾶσθαι,

ADEIMANTOS: ( okay then ) ( so we give him credit )

( and we give we credit ) ( and we-being both useless )

( we-she-useless ) + ( useless-him ) = ( play ) ?

( okay? ) ( okay! ) ( okay? ) ( okay! ) ( okay? ) lol

( lets be ) on our way to adventure ( together )

( lets be ) ( a happy phantom ) ( lets chase nuns

out in the yard ) ( lets make snow-trysty Misty

and then lets feel him melting in our hand )

SOKRATES: but still not( to accuse )

the( ones who are )most-fitting( meet-suitable ),

ἀλλὰ μὴ τοὺς ἐπιεικεῖς.

ADEIMANTOS: ( of being hateful or cruel )

( whos not here to repeat the atrocities of school )

( or to press falsehoods upon

the vulnerable )

( . . . )

( and he also showed )

we all love elephants

//

from hymn to Apollo

Republic VI