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 1 Intro|            What shall they do about drinking? as they had been all well
 2 Intro|        drunk on the day before, and drinking on two successive days is
 3 Intro|          Agathon hold out; they are drinking from a large goblet, which
 4 Intro|           at Potidaea; like (4) the drinking powers of Socrates and his
 5 Text |         they were about to commence drinking, when Pausanias said, And
 6 Text |          Consider then: How can the drinking be made easiest?~I entirely
 7 Text |            by all means, avoid hard drinking, for I was myself one of
 8 Text |          stronger ones are not in a drinking mood. (I do not include
 9 Text |        saying, as a physician, that drinking deep is a bad practice,
10 Text |            same.~It was agreed that drinking was not to be the order
11 Text |             you are all agreed that drinking is to be voluntary, and
12 Text |             which we are now doing, drinking, singing and talking—these
13 Text |            but if not, say that the drinking is over.’ A little while
14 Text | Aristophanes, and Agathon, who were drinking out of a large goblet which