1He was brought up in the house of Pericles (for he is said to have been his stepson) and educated by Socrates. 1He had as father-in-law Hipponicus, the richest of all who spoke the Greek tongue, so that if he had wished to imagine it for himself, he could neither have devised more blessings nor obtained greater than nature or fortune had bestowed. 2In early youth he was loved by many, after the Greek custom, among them by Socrates, whom Plato mentions in the Symposium. 2For he introduced him as relating that he had spent the night with Socrates and had risen from his side no differently than a son should from his father.
3After he grew stronger, he loved no fewer himself, and in these loves, so far as such odious affairs allowed, he did many things with refinement and wit: these we would relate if we did not have greater and weightier matters.