Lysias begins at the end

264aPhaedrus“You know about my circumstances, and you have heard why I think it would benefit us both if this came about. I ask you not to deny me what I seek simply because I am not in love with you. Lovers regret the good they have done as soon as their desire ceases—”

SocratesHe seems far from doing what we seek. He tries to swim through his speech backwards from the end, flat on his back: he begins with what a lover would say to his beloved only when he had finished. Or am I mistaken, my dear Phaedrus?

264bPhaedrusBut it is the end, Socrates, that his speech is about.