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In Phaedo, Socrates was speaking to Cebes and Simmias saying that they are afraid of death that when the soul leaves the body, the wind will scatter her away (in their opinion). And later he says "Let the voice of the charmer be applied daily until you have charmed him away".
What does he mean by that ?
The passage in question is Plato: Phaedo 77,e8-9.
The Greek text speaks about ἐπᾴδειν, which means to exorcize by singing. The Greek sentence has no explicit subject, it says one has to exorcize. The translator has added the voice of the charmer.
