²⁰ This is fully compatible with the view of friendship which can be extracted from Republic: see G. X. Santas, ‘Plato on Friendship and Familial Love in the Lysis and the Republic’, Philosophical Inquiry, 6 (1984), 1–12 (also chapter 4 of his Plato and Freud: Two Theories of Love (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988)).