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).