Eva Brann, St. John's College, at The Imaginative Conservative.
"When the get-together breaks up, Lysimachus, one of the two undistinguished fathers who have sought the generals’ opinion concerning the best care to be given their adolescent sons’ upbringing, invites Socrates to come by his house next morning to teach them and their boys. Socrates says, 'I will do so, Lysimachus, and will come to you tomorrow morning, if God wishes' (201c, my italics).
"Will he go? Will his inner divinity let him? I don’t think so."
See Plato, Dialogues, and The Seventh Letter, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 7, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 6.
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