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 1 Intro|    and Phaedrus, who is the ‘father’ of the idea, which he has
 2 Intro|   Socrates asks: Who are his father and mother? To this Diotima
 3 Intro|      of Pausanias); like his father he is bold and strong, and
 4 Text |  hand, and because he is the father of the thought, shall begin.~
 5 Text |    than at being seen by his father, or by his companions, or
 6 Text |     would, although he had a father and mother; but the tenderness
 7 Text |   that love is the love of a father or the love of a mother—
 8 Text |   you would, if I asked is a father a father of something? to
 9 Text |     if I asked is a father a father of something? to which you
10 Text |   And who,’ I said, ‘was his father, and who his mother?’ ‘The
11 Text | always in distress. Like his father too, whom he also partly
12 Text | again alive by reason of his father’s nature. But that which
13 Text |  birth is the cause; for his father is wealthy and wise, and
14 Text |      too, who is the revered father of Athenian laws; and many
15 Text | arose as from the couch of a father or an elder brother.~What