Alc. 2.1Ēducātus est in domō Periclī (prīvignus enim eius fuisse dīcitur), ērudītus ā Sōcrate.He was brought up in the house of Pericles (for he is said to have been his stepson) and educated by Socrates. Alc. 2.1Socerum habuit Hipponicum, omnium Graecā linguā loquentium dītissimum, ut, sī ipse fingere vellet, neque plūra bona comminīscī neque maiōra posset cōnsequī, quam vel nātūra vel fortūna tribuerat.He 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. Alc. 2.2Ineunte adulēscentiā amātus est ā multīs mōre Graecōrum, in eīs ā Sōcrate, dē quō mentiōnem facit Platō in symposiō.In early youth he was loved by many, after the Greek custom, among them by Socrates, whom Plato mentions in the Symposium. Alc. 2.2Namque eum indūxit commemorantem sē pernoctāsse cum Sōcrate neque aliter ab eō surrēxisse, ac fīlius ā parente dēbuerit.For 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.
Alc. 2.3Posteāquam rōbustior est factus, nōn minus multōs amāvit, in quōrum amōre, quoad licitum est odiōsa, multa dēlicātē iocōseque fēcit: quae referrēmus, nisi maiōra potiōra habērēmus.After 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.