Flattery for judges--like Plato they are!
See the Glaucus passage on p. 67 which alludes to the following portion of Plato's Republic:
"to know [the true nature of the soul] we must view it. . .in the
light of reason. . .when it is purified, and then you will find it to be
a far more beautiful thing and will more clearly distinguish justice and
all the matters that we have now discussed. But though we have stated the
truth of its present. . .condition as we have contemplated it. . .[its appearance]
resembles that of the sea-god Glaucus whose first nature can hardly be made
out. . .because the original members of his body are broken off and mutilated
and crushed. . .marred by. . .accretions of shells and seaweed and rocks.
. .[made to] look more like any wild creature than what he was by nature--even
such, I say, is our vision of the soul marred by countless
evils.
. ." (Republic, X:611b-c).