Phaedrus. I come from Lysias the son of Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common friend Acumenus tells me that it is much more refreshing to walk in the open air than to be shut up in a cloister.
▪ Excerpted from Plato's Phaedrus 360 BCE - translated by B. Jowett [1871]
