0263 Menexenus 234c

In an apparent reaction to the importance Menexenus attaches to the choice of eulogist, Socrates exclaims how in many places dying in war is a fine thing, and proceeds to deliver a lengthy sentence supposedly explaining why this is so. The reasons he give present the eulogy as a well-rehearsed spell cast over the listeners to divorce them from reality and make them feel that the situation is much better than it is, and that the soldiers died for a good cause.Here I read through Platonic dialogues, translating and commenting on the Greek text as I go.The resulting analyses may be found at:https://theplatoparadigm.com