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  1 Intro|         most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain
  2 Intro|   prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words
  3 Intro|         which ensue from them, as may be seen in the instance
  4 Intro|           of fantastic tricks; he may swear and forswear himself (
  5 Intro|        they say Jove laughs’); he may be a servant, and lie on
  6 Intro|       country is that the beloved may do the same service to the
  7 Intro|         of virtue which the lover may do to him.~A voluntary service
  8 Intro|           in one, then the lovers may lawfully unite. Nor is there
  9 Intro|          which you, Aristophanes, may supply, as I perceive that
 10 Intro|         all men to piety, that we may obtain the goods of which
 11 Intro|           result of his questions may be summed up as follows:—~
 12 Intro|           Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love,
 13 Intro|         and disappointed lover he may be allowed to sing the praises
 14 Intro|     composition; and every reader may form his own accompaniment
 15 Intro|           the sensual desires, or may even be regarded as a spiritualized
 16 Intro|    spiritualized form of them. We may observe that Socrates himself
 17 Intro|            The same passion which may wallow in the mire is capable
 18 Intro|        the ancients in music, and may be extended to the other
 19 Intro|         drawn to the life; and we may suppose the less-known characters
 20 Intro|         Sympos. with Phaedr.). We may also remark that Aristodemus
 21 Intro|       consent to the narrator. We may observe, by the way, (1)
 22 Intro|       takes his departure. (5) We may notice the manner in which
 23 Intro|    allowed to speak the truth. We may note also the touch of Socratic
 24 Intro|           to give. Lastly, (9) we may remark that the banquet
 25 Intro|     absurdity. His notion of love may be summed up as the harmony
 26 Intro|         youthful ever. The speech may be compared with that speech
 27 Intro|         he who has beauty or good may desire more of them; and
 28 Intro|         beauty or good in himself may desire beauty and good in
 29 Intro|          procreation of children, may become the highest aspiration
 30 Intro|    contradiction in nature, which may have existed in a far-off
 31 Intro|           king, or son of a king, may be a philosopher,’ so also
 32 Intro|          a probability that there may be some few—perhaps one
 33 Intro|           whom the light of truth may not lack the warmth of desire.
 34 Intro|           or statesmen great good may often arise.~Yet there is
 35 Intro|         of the real Socrates this may be doubted: compare his
 36 Intro|  Epaminondas and Pelopidas, if we may believe writers cited anonymously
 37 Intro|     existence of such attachments may be reasonably attributed
 38 Intro|           to be the worst, but it may be remarked that this very
 39 Intro|        beyond all praise). (2) It may be observed that evils which
 40 Intro|  different degrees of culpability may be included. No charge is
 41 Intro|         jealousy or party enmity, may have converted the innocent
 42 Intro|           licentiousness. Such we may believe to have been the
 43 Intro|         has been blasted by them, may be none the less resolved
 44 Intro|  so-called) Symposium of Xenophon may therefore have no more title
 45 Text |          go;’~and this alteration may be supported by the authority
 46 Text |       said Aristodemus, lest this may still be my case; and that,
 47 Text |     fashion, one or other of them may invent an excuse by the
 48 Text |        place next to him; that ‘I may touch you,’ he said, ‘and
 49 Text |         disposed to drink much, I may be forgiven for saying,
 50 Text |          proposal, as I am aware, may seem rather hard upon us
 51 Text |       intelligent nature; any one may recognise the pure enthusiasts
 52 Text |         future is uncertain; they may turn out good or bad, either
 53 Text |         and much noble enthusiasm may be thrown away upon them;
 54 Text |           for office or power. He may pray, and entreat, and supplicate,
 55 Text |         strangest of all, he only may swear and forswear himself (
 56 Text |   anything of the sort which they may observe, and their elders
 57 Text |         one, and then the beloved may honourably indulge the lover.
 58 Text |          one—then, and then only, may the beloved yield with honour
 59 Text |   productions of the earth, and I may say in all that is; such
 60 Text |      medicine I will begin that I may do honour to my art. There
 61 Text |   medicine consists: for medicine may be regarded generally as
 62 Text |        intemperate only that they may become temperate, and of
 63 Text |          pleasure be enjoyed, but may not generate licentiousness;
 64 Text |    desires of the epicure that he may gratify his tastes without
 65 Text |       ought to be noted as far as may be, for they are both present.~
 66 Text |            and you, Aristophanes, may now supply the omission
 67 Text |           be called to account, I may be induced to let you off.~
 68 Text |        they are satisfied if they may be allowed to live with
 69 Text |           the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment:
 70 Text |         all men to piety, that we may avoid evil, and obtain the
 71 Text |      ridicule, in order that each may have his turn; each, or
 72 Text |       Agathon, in the hope that I may be disconcerted at the expectation
 73 Text |      tribute to the god, then you may talk.~Very good, Phaedrus,
 74 Text |           of praising everything. May I say without impiety or
 75 Text |      words and in any order which may happen to come into my mind
 76 Text |        questions, in order that I may take his admissions as the
 77 Text |         eloquently of his nature, may I ask you further, Whether
 78 Text |          example in order that we may avoid misconception. For
 79 Text |       that what he has at present may be preserved to him in the
 80 Text |         and ignorance?’ ‘And what may that be?’ I said. ‘Right
 81 Text |        nor the foolish?’ ‘A child may answer that question,’ she
 82 Text |           her ‘That the beautiful may be his.’ ‘Still,’ she said, ‘
 83 Text |       same holds of love. For you may say generally that all desire
 84 Text |            Then love,’ she said, ‘may be described generally as
 85 Text |         maintain their young. Man may be supposed to act thus
 86 Text |            Of that, Socrates, you may be assured;—think only of
 87 Text |      about seeking beauty that he may beget offspring—for in deformity
 88 Text | Lacedaemon, but of Hellas, as one may say? There is Solon, too,
 89 Text |         which even you, Socrates, may enter; to the greater and
 90 Text |          the birth thoughts which may improve the young, until
 91 Text |          to the sciences, that he may see their beauty, being
 92 Text |           immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be an ignoble
 93 Text |       have spoken, you, Phaedrus, may call an encomium of love,
 94 Text |          them from my own head, I may crown the head of this fairest
 95 Text |           and wisest of men, as I may be allowed to call him.
 96 Text |           the truth, although you may laugh. But first tell me;
 97 Text |         me, and at this moment he may do me some harm. Please
 98 Text |        some of the ribands that I may crown the marvellous head
 99 Text |   anything which is not true, you may interrupt me if you will,
100 Text |          Socrates commanded: they may have escaped the observation
101 Text |           the apartment. All this may be told without shame to
102 Text |         me any power by which you may become better; truly you
103 Text |        perfectly astonishing. You may imagine Brasidas and others
104 Text |        been like Achilles; or you may imagine Nestor and Antenor
105 Text |       like Pericles; and the same may be said of other famous
106 Text |       will rise instantly, that I may be praised by Socrates.~