"And so does each lover live, after the manner of the god in whose company he once was, honouring him and copying him so far as may be, so long as he remains uncorrupt . . . and in like manner does he comport himself toward his beloved . . .and so selects a fair one for his love after his own disposition, and even as if the beloved himself were a god he fashions for himself as it were an image, and adorns it to be the object of his veneration and worship." Plato's Phaedrus