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 1 Intro|     physician shall cure him or speak in his turn. Eryximachus
 2 Intro|        speech follows:—~He will speak of the god first and then
 3 Intro|      fancied that they meant to speak the true praises of love,
 4 Intro|   falsely, but he is willing to speak the truth, and proposes
 5 Intro|         a speech, and will only speak at all upon the condition
 6 Intro| condition that he is allowed to speak the truth. We may note also
 7 Intro|       them, not that you should speak the truth about them—this
 8 Intro|       argue before he begins to speak. He expresses the very genius
 9 Intro|      the truth, and if he is to speak the truth of Love he must
10 Intro|          As the Christian might speak of hungering and thirsting
11 Intro|       is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the
12 Intro|       the mediaeval saint might speak of the ‘fruitio Dei;’ as
13 Text |        them if you like. For to speak or to hear others speak
14 Text |         speak or to hear others speak of philosophy always gives
15 Text |        to hear one other person speak: Is Agathon able to drink
16 Text |       word’~which I am about to speak, but that of Phaedrus. For
17 Text |      been taught by the wise to speak; and Aristodemus said that
18 Text |         stop my hiccough, or to speak in my turn until I have
19 Text |        said Eryximachus: I will speak in your turn, and do you
20 Text |        in your turn, and do you speak in mine; and while I am
21 Text |       although you are going to speak, you are making fun of me;
22 Text |         expense, when you might speak in peace.~You are right,
23 Text |       the audience that I shall speak well.~I should be strangely
24 Text |        say first how I ought to speak, and then speak:—~The previous
25 Text |        ought to speak, and then speak:—~The previous speakers,
26 Text |         the god first, and then speak of his gifts; this is always
27 Text |        his virtue I have now to speak: his greatest glory is that
28 Text |       spoken, but I have yet to speak of his wisdom; and according
29 Text |       be in a strait who has to speak after he has heard such
30 Text |         true praise, and should speak well. Whereas I now see
31 Text |       about love, I am ready to speak in my own manner, though
32 Text |         and the company bid him speak in any manner which he thought
33 Text |        Agathon, in proposing to speak of the nature of Love first
34 Text |       suggested (supra), I must speak first of the being and nature
35 Text |     life?’~Such, Phaedrus—and I speak not only to you, but to
36 Text |      have never been allowed to speak to any other fair one, or
37 Text |      well drunken, you ought to speak, and then impose upon Socrates
38 Text |      your praise?~I am going to speak the truth, if you will permit
39 Text |       permit, but exhort you to speak the truth.~Then I will begin
40 Text |       though my intention is to speak the truth. But you must
41 Text |        you must not wonder if I speak any how as things come into
42 Text |         a caricature, and yet I speak, not to make fun of him,
43 Text |         you to listen; and if I speak falsely, do you, Socrates,
44 Text |      with us, I should hear him speak the language which lovers
45 Text |            and therefore I must speak. Nor, again, should I be
46 Text |      appear to be too modest to speak. Now I feel that I should