...once caught him when he was open like Silenus' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures he 217A keeps hidden within: they were so godlike — so bright...a choice — I just had to do whatever he told me. What I thought at the time was that what he really wanted was me, and that seemed to me the luckiest...

...I once caught him when he was open like Silenus' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures 1 61* he keeps hidden within: they were so godlike — so bright and beautiful, 217 so utterly amazing — that I no longer had a choice — I just had to do whatever he told me....

...of you have seen him when he's really serious. But I once caught him when he was open like Silenus' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures he keeps...a choice — I just had to do whatever he told me. (2 16e) Socrates' (at least outward) resemblance to a satyr became a commonplace in antiquity (as in...

...figure within. Socrates may be ugly as a satyr on the outside, but "once 1 had a glimpse of the figures within — they were so godlike, so bright and beautiful, so utterly amazing— that 1 no longer had a choice — 1 just had to do whatever he told me." We pay constant lip service to...

...once caught him when he was open like Silenus' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures he keeps within: they were so godlike — so bright and beautiful,...a choice — I just had to do whatever he told me. (216 D-2iy A, emphasis added) Alcibiades took Socrates' expression of erotic attachment to youths at...