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 1 Intro| daughter of Uranus, who has no mother and is the elder and wiser
 2 Intro|         Who are his father and mother? To this Diotima replies
 3 Intro|     starved by turns. Like his mother he is poor and squalid,
 4 Text |   although he had a father and mother; but the tenderness of her
 5 Text |        he had been told by his mother, that he might avoid death
 6 Text |       The elder one, having no mother, who is called the heavenly
 7 Text |         The goddess who is his mother is far younger than the
 8 Text |    Aphrodite is derived from a mother in whose birth the female
 9 Text |        father or the love of a mother—that would be ridiculous;
10 Text |        would say the same of a mother?~He assented.~Yet let me
11 Text |        his father, and who his mother?’ ‘The tale,’ she said, ‘
12 Text |  taking his rest; and like his mother he is always in distress.
13 Text |      wealthy and wise, and his mother poor and foolish. Such,