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 1 Intro|          court, and the voice of Alcibiades is heard asking for Agathon.
 2 Intro|         is requested to appease. Alcibiades then insists that they shall
 3 Intro|         too, as he has convinced Alcibiades, and made him ashamed of
 4 Intro|    another occasion he had saved Alcibiades’ life; how at the battle
 5 Intro|        the divinest truths.~When Alcibiades has done speaking, a dispute
 6 Intro|        Socrates. Socrates piques Alcibiades by a pretended affection
 7 Intro|         rhythms of his verse; of Alcibiades, who is the same strange
 8 Intro|       extraordinary narrative of Alcibiades is ingeniously represented
 9 Intro|   confirmed by the mention which Alcibiades makes of a similar fit of
10 Intro|        to this extreme idealism, Alcibiades, accompanied by a troop
11 Intro|       men of Hellas, e.g. Cimon, Alcibiades, Critias, Demosthenes, Epaminondas:
12 Intro|     Timarchum.)~The character of Alcibiades in the Symposium is hardly
13 Intro|       the Republic (compare also Alcibiades 1).~There is no criterion
14 Text | Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, Alcibiades, A Troop of Revellers.~SCENE:
15 Text |      were delivered by Socrates, Alcibiades, and others, at Agathon’
16 Text |          of Mantineia (compare 1 Alcibiades), a woman wise in this and
17 Text |          they heard the voice of Alcibiades resounding in the court;
18 Text |        who made way for him, and Alcibiades took the vacant place between
19 Text |      partner in our revels? said Alcibiades, turning round and starting
20 Text |         between you and me, said Alcibiades; but for the present I will
21 Text |        Observe, my friends, said Alcibiades, that this ingenious trick
22 Text |  Eryximachus said: What is this, Alcibiades? Are we to have neither
23 Text |     drink as if we were thirsty?~Alcibiades replied: Hail, worthy son
24 Text |        That I leave to you, said Alcibiades.~‘The wise physician skilled
25 Text |          good, Eryximachus, said Alcibiades; and yet the comparison
26 Text |           Hold your tongue, said Alcibiades, for by Poseidon, there
27 Text |         think, Eryximachus? said Alcibiades: shall I attack him and
28 Text |         will begin at once, said Alcibiades, and if I say anything which
29 Text |          characteristic of him:—‘Alcibiades, my friend, you have indeed
30 Text |          the proverb says.’~When Alcibiades had finished, there was
31 Text |         Socrates. You are sober, Alcibiades, said Socrates, or you would
32 Text |       couch below me.~Alas, said Alcibiades, how I am fooled by this
33 Text |    Socrates.~The usual way, said Alcibiades; where Socrates is, no one