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1 Intro| others at the banquet of Agathon is desirous of having an
2 Intro| banquet at the house of Agathon, who had been sacrificing
3 Intro| alluding to Pausanias and Agathon (compare Protag.), for my
4 Intro| Eryximachus, and then between Agathon, who fears a few select
5 Intro| their tribute to the god. Agathon’s speech follows:—~He will
6 Intro| to begin by questioning Agathon. The result of his questions
7 Intro| woman of Mantinea, who, like Agathon, had spoken first of love
8 Intro| his works. Socrates, like Agathon, had told her that Love
9 Intro| Alcibiades is heard asking for Agathon. He is led in drunk, and
10 Intro| in drunk, and welcomed by Agathon, whom he has come to crown
11 Intro| carried on between them, which Agathon is requested to appease.
12 Intro| dispute begins between him and Agathon and Socrates. Socrates piques
13 Intro| pretended affection for Agathon. Presently a band of revellers
14 Intro| Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon hold out; they are drinking
15 Intro| as the day is dawning, Agathon. Socrates, having laid them
16 Intro| is home sickness.’ When Agathon says that no man ‘can be
17 Intro| imagery a serious purpose; of Agathon, who in later life is satirized
18 Intro| physical speakers, while in Agathon and Socrates poetry and
19 Intro| superiority which he gains over Agathon is ingeniously represented
20 Intro| sufficient indication to Agathon that Socrates has been left
21 Intro| 2) how the courtesy of Agathon anticipates the excuse which
22 Intro| dialectics, who will argue with Agathon instead of making a speech,
23 Intro| The love of Pausanias for Agathon has already been touched
24 Intro| realized.~The speech of Agathon is conceived in a higher
25 Intro| to him. The rhetoric of Agathon elevates the soul to ‘sunlit
26 Intro| necessary eloquence of Socrates. Agathon contributes the distinction
27 Intro| comic poet Aristophanes, Agathon, the tragic poet, has a
28 Intro| adds) of the good; from Agathon, that love is of beauty,
29 Intro| which overthrows not only Agathon but all the preceding speakers
30 Intro| argument which he urges against Agathon. That the distinction is
31 Text | Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, Alcibiades, A
32 Text | Revellers.~SCENE: The House of Agathon.~Concerning the things about
33 Text | Alcibiades, and others, at Agathon’s supper. Phoenix, the son
34 Text | ignorant that for many years Agathon has not resided at Athens;
35 Text | boyhood, I replied, when Agathon won the prize with his first
36 Text | Cydathenaeum. He had been at Agathon’s feast; and I think that
37 Text | a beau:—~To a banquet at Agathon’s, he replied, whose invitation
38 Text | he reached the house of Agathon he found the doors wide
39 Text | Welcome, Aristodemus, said Agathon, as soon as he appeared—
40 Text | quite right in coming, said Agathon; but where is he himself?~
41 Text | look for him, boy, said Agathon, and bring him in; and do
42 Text | stir.’~How strange, said Agathon; then you must call him
43 Text | I will leave him, said Agathon. And then, turning to the
44 Text | Socrates; and during the meal Agathon several times expressed
45 Text | duration —Socrates entered. Agathon, who was reclining alone
46 Text | mocking, Socrates, said Agathon, and ere long you and I
47 Text | one other person speak: Is Agathon able to drink hard?~I am
48 Text | am not equal to it, said Agathon.~Then, said Eryximachus,
49 Text | love; nor, I presume, will Agathon and Pausanias; and there
50 Text | saying to Pausanias and Agathon, who, as I suspect, are
51 Text | each, or rather either, for Agathon and Socrates are the only
52 Text | and did I not know that Agathon and Socrates are masters
53 Text | rather as I shall be when Agathon has spoken, you would, indeed,
54 Text | over me, Socrates, said Agathon, in the hope that I may
55 Text | be strangely forgetful, Agathon replied Socrates, of the
56 Text | you think, Socrates, said Agathon, that my head is so full
57 Text | wrong in attributing to you, Agathon, that or any other want
58 Text | would you not?~Yes, said Agathon.~But before the many you
59 Text | not answer him, my dear Agathon; for if he can only get
60 Text | Very good, Phaedrus, said Agathon; I see no reason why I should
61 Text | dedicate to the god.~When Agathon had done speaking, Aristodemus
62 Text | prophet when I said that Agathon would make a wonderful oration,
63 Text | prophecy which concerns Agathon, replied Eryximachus, appears
64 Text | his speech I fancied that Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian
65 Text | permission first to ask Agathon a few more questions, in
66 Text | you were right, my dear Agathon, in proposing to speak of
67 Text | be right.~Very true, said Agathon.~And you would say the same
68 Text | nothing, is in my judgment, Agathon, absolutely and necessarily
69 Text | I agree with you, said Agathon.~Very good. Would he who
70 Text | possessors of these qualities, Agathon, must be supposed to have
71 Text | he not?~He must, replied Agathon.~Then, said Socrates, he
72 Text | of that kind?~Yes, said Agathon.~Yes, my friend, and the
73 Text | that love is beautiful?~Agathon replied: I fear that I did
74 Text | made a very good speech, Agathon, replied Socrates; but there
75 Text | refute you, Socrates, said Agathon:—Let us assume that what
76 Text | true.~Say rather, beloved Agathon, that you cannot refute
77 Text | with the admissions made by Agathon, which are nearly if not
78 Text | compare Gorgias). As you, Agathon, suggested (supra), I must
79 Text | a flute-girl was heard. Agathon told the attendants to go
80 Text | roaring and shouting ‘Where is Agathon? Lead me to Agathon,’ and
81 Text | Where is Agathon? Lead me to Agathon,’ and at length, supported
82 Text | revels? Or shall I crown Agathon, which was my intention
83 Text | his place among them, and Agathon specially invited him. Thereupon
84 Text | led, intending to crown Agathon, he took the ribands from
85 Text | the vacant place between Agathon and Socrates, and in taking
86 Text | taking the place he embraced Agathon and crowned him. Take off
87 Text | Take off his sandals, said Agathon, and let him make a third
88 Text | company?~Socrates turned to Agathon and said: I must ask you
89 Text | must ask you to protect me, Agathon; for the passion of this
90 Text | chastisement. And I must beg you, Agathon, to give me back some of
91 Text | us have a large goblet, Agathon, or rather, he said, addressing
92 Text | around me, Phaedrus and Agathon and Eryximachus and Pausanias
93 Text | Wherefore I say to you, Agathon, ‘Be not deceived by him;
94 Text | a quarrel between me and Agathon, and your notion is that
95 Text | and you only ought to love Agathon. But the plot of this Satyric
96 Text | you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance.~
97 Text | believe you are right, said Agathon, and I am disposed to think
98 Text | I do beseech you, allow Agathon to lie between us.~Certainly
99 Text | the youth.~Hurrah! cried Agathon, I will rise instantly,
100 Text | specious reason for attracting Agathon to himself.~Agathon arose
101 Text | attracting Agathon to himself.~Agathon arose in order that he might
102 Text | Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon, who were drinking out of
103 Text | day was already dawning, Agathon. Socrates, having laid them
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