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Lysis
Plato · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordTeleutaō means end; come to a conclusion or terminate in something.
- In LysisAt 220b all the so-called friendships end in the thing that is really a friend.
- Reading contextThe same vocabulary returns at 220d when Socrates tests whether that final object still depends on an enemy.
- A place to readThe Greek example means “In which all these so-called friendships end.”
- English renderings
- End; come to a conclusion or terminate in something
Meaning
End; come to a conclusion or terminate in something.
Grammatical category: verb.
Use in the book
At 220b all the so-called friendships end in the thing that is really a friend. The verb describes the destination of derivative attachments: the cup and wine matter because of the person they are meant to save.
This is not the ordinary temporal ending of a friendship, or the death of a friend. The construction εἰς ὅ gives the point in which the sequence terminates. The same vocabulary returns at 220d when Socrates tests whether that final object still depends on an enemy.