Young men
group · 8 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
young men · the young · young · Euthydemus' age group · a young man · boy · boys · son · the young men · the younger men
spoken of as
1 expressionThe young men“Protarchus's companions”2 mentions
Philebus (Greek) · Against Lochites (Greek)
No, it is not, boys, as Philebus calls you;
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
The younger generation whose moral education is shaped by public honors and proclamations.
And he censures my frequenting of the gymnasia with the younger men.
And, most important of all, the younger men inquire of you after what example they ought to shape their lives.
For be assured, fellow citizens, it is not our wrestling halls or the schools or our system of liberal studies alone that educate the young, but far more our public proclamations.
Aphorisms
Young male persons discussed as a demographic group with a specific gout-susceptibility rule
A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
Against Lochites
Athenian youths whose attitude toward ordinary citizens the jurors risk shaping through their verdict.
You will not teach the young men to have contempt for the mass of our citizens, nor consider that trials of this character are of no concern to you;
Areopagiticus
Athenian youth, portrayed as needing supervision, work, noble pursuits, and moral discipline.
But let no one suppose that I am out of temper with the younger generation:
Now our forefathers exercised care over all the citizens, but most of all over the young.
Understanding this, they restrained the people from wrongdoing in both ways—both by punishment and by watchfulness;
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Young people who are to be trained toward virtue through instruction and example.
Exhort the young to virtue not only by your precepts but by exemplifying in your conduct what good men ought to be.
Philebus
The group of young men present with Protarchus and Philebus, described as numerous and youthful, who insist on seeing the argument through to a conclusion.
No, it is not, boys, as Philebus calls you;
Socrates, do you not see how many we are and that we are all young men?
Memorabilia
Young persons, especially the talented, who require education and are associated with Socrates' conversations.
Thus he disregarded their repeated injunction not to talk with young men;
The most highly gifted, the youths of ardent soul, capable of doing whatever they attempt, if educated and taught their duty grow into excellent and useful men;
On Hunting
The younger generation of citizens whose moral and civic education through hunting is the central concern of the closing philosophical section.
and, in addition, not to permit hunting at night within a radius of many furlongs from the city, so that the masters of that art might not rob the young men of their game.
Therefore, reflecting on these things, the young who do what I exhort them to do will put themselves in the way of being dear to the gods and pious men, conscious that one or other of the gods is watching their deeds.
For they whose toils root out whatever is base and froward from mind and body and make desire for virtue to flourish in their place—they are the best, since they will not brook injustice to their own city nor injury to its soil.