1.Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens

　　Socrates wrote nothing.Most of what we know about him has been preserved by three of his famous younger contemporaries,Aristophanes,Xenophon,and,most improtantly,Plato.From these sources Socrates emerges as an intense genius who,along with extraordinary rational rigor,possessed a personal warmth and a fondness for humor.He was a robust man with great powers of physical endurance.In his playful comedy,The Clouds,Aristophanes depicts Socrates as a strutting waterfowl,poking fun at his habit of rolling his eyes and referring impishly to his “pupils” and “thinking shop.” From Xenophon comes the portrait of a loyal soldier who has a passion for discussing the requirements of morality and who inevitably attracted the younger people to seek out his advice.Plato confirms this general portrait and in addition pictures Socrates as a man with a deep sense of mission and absolute moral purity.In the Symposium,Plato relates how Alcibiades,a fair youth,expected to win the amorous affections of Socrates,contriving in various ways to be alone with him.But,Alcibiades says,“nothing of the sort occurred at all:he would merely converse with me in his usual manner,and when he had spent the day with me he would leave me and go his way.” In military campaigns,Socrates could go without food longer than anyone else.Others wrapped themselves up with “prodigious care” against the bitter cold of winter,using “felt and little fleeces”over their shoes.But Socrates,Alcibiades says,“walked out in that weather,clad in just such a coat as he was always wont to wear,and he made his way more easily over the ice unshod than the rest of us did in our shoes.”
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