Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|          with a glorification of madness, which he divides into four
 2 Phaedr|         and Io, he connects with madness by an etymological explanation (
 3 Phaedr|      temple. All this shows that madness is one of heaven’s blessings,
 4 Phaedr|         is also a fourth kind of madness—that of love—which cannot
 5 Phaedr| knowledge, which is described as madness; thirdly, dialectic or the
 6 Phaedr|          in regarding love as ‘a madness’? That seems to arise out
 7 Phaedr|     other mad. It might be so if madness were simply an evil; but
 8 Phaedr|        evil; but there is also a madness which is a divine gift,
 9 Phaedr|        to men. For prophecy is a madness, and the prophetess at Delphi
10 Phaedr|        the noblest of arts, with madness (manike), or called them
11 Phaedr|         name, if they had deemed madness to be a disgrace or dishonour;—
12 Phaedr|       that there was an inspired madness which was a noble thing;
13 Phaedr|         the ancients testify, is madness superior to a sane mind (
14 Phaedr|          blood-guiltiness, there madness has entered with holy prayers
15 Phaedr|       him. The third kind is the madness of those who are possessed
16 Phaedr|    having no touch of the Muses’ madness in his soul, comes to the
17 Phaedr|        have sprung from inspired madness. And therefore, let no one
18 Phaedr|        in answer to him that the madness of love is the greatest
19 Phaedr|          fourth and last kind of madness, which is imputed to him
20 Phaedr|       and excitement, and in her madness can neither sleep by night
21 Phaedr|          mean reward of love and madness. For those who have once
22 Phaedr|          rather say ‘madly;’ and madness was the argument of them,
23 Phaedr|       for, as I said, ‘love is a madness.’~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
24 Phaedr|  PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And of madness there were two kinds; one
25 Phaedr|       True.~SOCRATES: The divine madness was subdivided into four
26 Phaedr|  description of the last kind of madness, which was also said to
27 Phaedr|      discourse leading us to the madness which lay on the right side,