XPost: alt.language.latin, alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
            “Quum diues quidam filium adolescentulum ad Socratem misisset,   
   ut indolem illius inspiceret, ac pædagogus diceret, Pater ad te ô   
   Socrates, misit filium, ut eum videres:   
      
            tum Socrates ad puerum,   
                   Loquere igitur, inquit, adolescens, ut te uideam:   
      
   significans, ingenium hominis non tam in uultu relucere,   
   quam in oratione, quòd hoc sit certissimum minimeq- ; mendax animi   
   speculum”   
      
   ________________________   
      
            “When a rich man sent his youthful son to Socrates so that he   
   could see the promise of his son, the slave who brought him said,   
      
   ‘Socrates, the father sends his son so you can see him.’   
      
   Socrates replied to the boy, ‘Speak so that I may see you.’   
      
          Meaning: the character of a man shines less in his face than in   
   his speech because speech is the most reliable and least deceitful   
   mirror of the soul.”   
      
      
                     -------  where's  [slave]  in the Latin text?   
                                i see... it's not there at all.   
      
      
   Was this when  Socrates was  imprisoned?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)