File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9802, message 57


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


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