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 1 Intro|     sexes were only one, but now God has halved them,—much as
 2 Intro|     author, and be reconciled to God, and find our own true loves,
 3 Intro|          of their tribute to the god. Agathon’s speech follows:—~
 4 Intro|   follows:—~He will speak of the god first and then of his gifts:
 5 Intro|          which I dedicate to the god.~The turn of Socrates comes
 6 Intro|        her that Love is a mighty god and also fair, and she had
 7 Intro|         good and evil, and not a god at all, but only a great
 8 Intro|     wisdom, and be the friend of God and heir of immortality.~
 9 Intro|         speakers dedicate to the god. All of them are rhetorical
10 Intro|     exaggerated encomiums of the god Love; (6) the satirical
11 Intro|         persons, especially, the God and beast in man seem to
12 Intro|       eternal in the world or in God. He is willing to rest in
13 Text |        hymn had been sung to the god, and there had been the
14 Text |           the great and glorious god, Love, has no encomiast
15 Text |        do better than honour the god Love. If you agree with
16 Text |  affirming that Love is a mighty god, and wonderful among gods
17 Text |        which, as Homer says, the god breathes into the souls
18 Text |        because he is inspired by God. Now Achilles was quite
19 Text |        the wickedness of mankind God has dispersed us, as the
20 Text |         if we are friends of the God and at peace with him we
21 Text |      benefit, we must praise the god Love, who is our greatest
22 Text |         paid your tribute to the god, then you may talk.~Very
23 Text |          instead of praising the god Love, or unfolding his nature,
24 Text |          would rather praise the god first, and then speak of
25 Text |     Concerning the beauty of the god I have said enough; and
26 Text |      suffer wrong to or from any god or any man; for he suffers
27 Text |          As to courage, even the God of War is no match for him;
28 Text |       which he is said to be the god who~‘Gives peace on earth
29 Text |       ability, I dedicate to the god.~When Agathon had done speaking,
30 Text |    worthy of himself, and of the god. And Socrates, looking at
31 Text |           that Love was a mighty god, and likewise fair; and
32 Text |    admitted by all to be a great god.’ ‘By those who know or
33 Text |       acknowledged to be a great god by those who say that he
34 Text |         who say that he is not a god at all?’ ‘And who are they?’
35 Text |         you dare to say that any god was not?’ ‘Certainly not,’
36 Text |       did.’ ‘But how can he be a god who has no portion in what
37 Text | incantation, find their way. For God mingles not with man; but
38 Text |      intercourse and converse of God with man, whether awake
39 Text |        of the gods, at which the god Poros or Plenty, who is
40 Text |        of the matter is this: No god is a philosopher or seeker
41 Text |          to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal
42 Text |         in his presence, whether God or man, he will hardly keep