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 1 Intro|          improvement.~The turn of Aristophanes comes next; but he has the
 2 Intro|    mention many things which you, Aristophanes, may supply, as I perceive
 3 Intro|        are cured of the hiccough.~Aristophanes is the next speaker:—~He
 4 Intro|     raillery ensues first between Aristophanes and Eryximachus, and then
 5 Intro|           speech of Socrates, and Aristophanes is about to say something,
 6 Intro|      pelican, rolling his eyes as Aristophanes had described him in the
 7 Intro|        all asleep. Only Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon hold out; they
 8 Intro|         of comedy also. And first Aristophanes drops, and then, as the
 9 Intro|         truth of his remark. When Aristophanes declares that love is the
10 Intro|         the Theban (Phaedrus); of Aristophanes, who disguises under comic
11 Intro|        later life is satirized by Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazusae,
12 Intro|          ethical, Eryximachus and Aristophanes the physical speakers, while
13 Intro|           the scientific, that of Aristophanes as the artistic (!), that
14 Intro|  Protagoras, and is alluded to by Aristophanes. Hence he is naturally the
15 Intro|     partly for the sake of making Aristophanes ‘the cause of wit in others,’
16 Intro|         suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous
17 Intro|           earth with one another.~Aristophanes is ready to laugh and make
18 Intro|        verisimilitude. Nothing in Aristophanes is more truly Aristophanic
19 Intro|        stronger in the comic poet Aristophanes, Agathon, the tragic poet,
20 Intro|       great power of nature; from Aristophanes, that love is the child
21 Text |           Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, Alcibiades,
22 Text |            I entirely agree, said Aristophanes, that we should, by all
23 Text |          there can be no doubt of Aristophanes, whose whole concern is
24 Text | Aristodemus said that the turn of Aristophanes was next, but either he
25 Text |         do as you prescribe, said Aristophanes, and now get on.~Eryximachus
26 Text |         not intentional, and you, Aristophanes, may now supply the omission
27 Text |           the hiccough.~Yes, said Aristophanes, who followed, the hiccough
28 Text |  Eryximachus said: Beware, friend Aristophanes, although you are going
29 Text |        peace.~You are right, said Aristophanes, laughing. I will unsay
30 Text |       shoot your bolt and escape, Aristophanes? Well, perhaps if you are
31 Text |           induced to let you off.~Aristophanes professed to open another
32 Text |        the company applauded, and Aristophanes was beginning to say something
33 Text |           or lover of jokes, like Aristophanes, but by the fairest of the
34 Text |     Pausanias and Aristodemus and Aristophanes, all of you, and I need
35 Text |          there you might see him, Aristophanes, as you describe (Aristoph.
36 Text |           remained only Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon, who were drinking
37 Text |        argument. And first of all Aristophanes dropped off, then, when