laches,-or-courage   

circumstances, let me offer you a piece of advice (and this need not
go further than ourselves). I maintain, my friends, that every one of
us should seek out the best teacher whom he can find, first for
ourselves, who are greatly in need of one, and then for the youth,
regardless of expense or anything. But I cannot advise that we remain
as we are. And if any one laughs at us for going to school at our age,
I would quote to them the authority of Homer, who says, that
Modesty is not good for a needy man. Let us, then, regardless of what
may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.
Lys. I like your proposal, Socrates; and as I am the oldest, I am also
the most eager to go to school with the boys. Let me beg a favour of
you: Come to my house to-morrow at dawn, and we will advise about
these matters. For the present, let us make an end of the
conversation.
Soc. I will come to you to-morrow, Lysimachus, as you propose, God
willing.