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Socrates. Let us turn aside here and go along the Ilissus; then we can sit down quietly wherever we please.
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Phaedrus. I am fortunate, it seems, in being barefoot; you are so always. It is easiest then for us to go along the brook with our feet in the water, and it is not unpleasant, especially at this time of the year and the day.
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Socrates. Lead on then, and look out for a good place where we may sit.
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Phaedrus. Do you see that very tall plane tree?
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Socrates. What of it?
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Phaedrus. There is shade there and a moderate breeze and grass to sit on, or, if we like, to lie down on.
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Socrates. Lead the way.
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Phaedrus. Tell me, Socrates, is it not from some place along here by the Ilissus that Boreas is said to have carried off Oreithyia?
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Socrates. Yes, that is the story.
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Phaedrus. Well, is it from here? The streamlet looks very pretty and pure and clear and fit for girls to play by.
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Socrates. No, the place is about two or three furlongs farther down, where you cross over to the precinct of Agra; and there is an altar of Boreas somewhere thereabouts.
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Phaedrus. I have never noticed it. But, for Heaven’s sake, Socrates, tell me; do you believe this tale is true?