SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply marvellous, and I do not believe that there is any one of your contemporaries who has either made or in one way or another has compelled others to make an equal number of speeches. I would except Simmias the Theban, but all the rest are far behind you.
Izan ere, nire ustez, zure bizitzan zehar sortu diren hitzaldietatik, ez ditu inork zuk baino gehiago sortarazi, bai zeuk esandakoak, bai besteek, baina nolabait zuk behartuta-Simmias tebastarra salbuesten dut; besteak, ordea, erabat gainditzen dituzu-.