lysis,-or-friendship   

drove them off; but afterwards, as they would not mind, and only went
on shouting in their barbarous dialect, and got angry, and kept
calling the boys-they appeared to us to have been drinking rather too
much at the Hermaea, which made them difficult to manage we fairly
gave way and broke up the company.
I said, however, a few words to the boys at parting: O Menexenus and
Lysis, how ridiculous that you two boys, and I, an old boy, who would
fain be one of you, should imagine ourselves to be friends-this is
what the by-standers will go away and say-and as yet we have not been
able to discover what is a friend!