Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|     beauty,’ etc.; or ‘the great name which belongs to God alone;’
 2 Phaedr|   whether you have received this name from the character of your
 3 Phaedr|         when very marked gives a name, neither honourable nor
 4 Phaedr| creditable, to the bearer of the name. The desire of eating, for
 5 Phaedr|       the desire to drink, has a name which is only too obvious,
 6 Phaedr|          as little doubt by what name any other appetite of the
 7 Phaedr|        be called;—it will be the name of that which happens to
 8 Phaedr|          very force, receiving a name, is called love (erromenos
 9 Phaedr|     called them both by the same name, if they had deemed madness
10 Phaedr|         this is confirmed by the name which was given by them
11 Phaedr|      august than augury, both in name and fact, in the same proportion,
12 Phaedr|         and among the gods has a name at which you, in your simplicity,
13 Phaedr|   writings of Homer in which the name occurs. One of them is rather
14 Phaedr|       right and left of the same name—after this manner the speaker
15 Phaedr|       love, also having the same name, but divine, which the speaker
16 Phaedr|        but God knows whether the name is right or not. And I should
17 Phaedr|         should like to know what name you would give to your or
18 Phaedr|       not to be content with the name of Hippocrates, but to examine
19 Phaedr|     other gentleman, in whatever name or country he rejoices,
20 Phaedr|          a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which
21 Phaedr|       but are worthy of a higher name, befitting the serious pursuit
22 Phaedr|       their life.~PHAEDRUS: What name would you assign to them?~
23 Phaedr|        them; for that is a great name which belongs to God alone,—