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Alcibiades' love for Socrates focuses on the beautiful figures of virtue which he thinks he sees lying beneath those "words as coarse as the hides worn by the most vulgar satyrs," which are the analog for him of Socrates' ugly, satyr-like body (215b3-4).
Alcibiades' later re-description of Socrates' inner figures shows him succumbing to the double-vision that inevitably results: If you were to listen to his arguments, at first they'd strike you as totally ridiculous; they're clothed in words as coarse as the hides worn by the most vulgar satyrs.
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