From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:15:56 EST Subject: Re: PLC: Enameled In Fire > Here's my two cents for the search in Plutarch in "Alcybiades I", though > I'm afraid not a very happy one. > > > But in the same manner as iron which is softened by the fire grows hard > with the cold, and all its parts are closed again; so, as often as Socrates > observed Alcibiades to be misled by luxury or pride, he reduced and > corrected him by his addresses, and made him humble and modest, by showing > him in how many things he was deficient, and how very far from perfection > in virtue. > > NK > But this is helpful. I was trying to think what Plutarch's original phrase might have been if he probably wasn't talking about how enamel ware is made. All I could think of was hardening steel by passing it through fire and then cooling it. pat sloane --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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