�

And then Harry heard it.

Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young

�

really a strange looking TATTOOED MAN. Several more of these hideous, bald his hand to him, in which lay a lovely little creature. "It has come

Thus in a succession of characters Plato represents the successivestages of morality, beginning with the Athenian gentleman of the oldentime, who is followed by the practical man of that day regulatinghis life by proverbs and saws; to him succeeds the wild generalizationof the Sophists, and lastly come the young disciples of the greatteacher, who know the sophistical arguments but will not beconvinced by them, and desire to go deeper into the nature ofthings. These too, like Cephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, areclearly distinguished from one another. Neither in the Republic, norin any other Dialogue of Plato, is a single character repeated.

�

She led them down a side street, then into the shelter of a shadowy alleyway.

�

The Sick Lion

bending blades of grass, which, in proportion to his size, seemed to