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1 Intro| encomiums of the god Love; (6) the satirical character
2 Intro| encouraging male loves; (7) the ruling passion of Socrates
3 Intro| unable to give. Lastly, (9) we may remark that the
4 Text | his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away
5 Text | he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the
6 Text | scents, there he sits and abides. Concerning the beauty of
7 Text | and also the most divine, abounding in fair images of virtue,
8 Text | to his memory, even when absent, he brings forth that which
9 Intro| so Plato would have us absorb all other loves and desires
10 Text | able either to drink or to abstain, and will not mind, whichever
11 Text | to a good old age, if he abstained from slaying Hector. Nevertheless
12 Text | governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and
13 Text | and jealousy, and not only abuses me but can hardly keep his
14 Text | noble in every case is the acceptance of another for the sake
15 Text | This proposal having been accepted, Eryximachus proceeded as
16 Intro| juxtaposition, as if by accident. A suitable ‘expectation’
17 Intro| reader may form his own accompaniment of thought or feeling to
18 Intro| in education with their accompaniments of song and metre, then
19 Text | end, but never thinks of accomplishing the end nobly, and therefore
20 Text | does to him is not to be accounted flattery or a dishonour
21 Text | although his words are not accurate; for he says that The One
22 Intro| connexion of another kind. Such accusations were brought against several
23 Intro| advantage of maintaining his accustomed profession of ignorance (
24 Text | the city, and one of my acquaintance, who had caught a sight
25 Text | virtue, the other seeking to acquire them with a view to education
26 Text | deserved, I know not how you acquired, of Apollodorus the madman;
27 Text | happy are made happy by the acquisition of good things. Nor is there
28 | across
29 Intro| intellect and political activity; from Eryximachus, that
30 Text | upon the stage with the actors and faced the vast theatre
31 Text | near him, neither when he acts does he act by force. For
32 | actually
33 Text | he fashioned Love.’~And Acusilaus agrees with Hesiod. Thus
34 Text | by making them pay their addresses to him. Wherefore I say
35 Text | Agathon, or rather, he said, addressing the attendant, bring me
36 Intro| of the whole, but (as he adds) of the good; from Agathon,
37 Intro| the manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry, the
38 Intro| arms. Then Zeus invented an adjustment of the sexes, which enabled
39 Text | would have died to save Admetus, or Achilles to avenge Patroclus,
40 Intro| Compare Hoeck’s Creta and the admirable and exhaustive article of
41 Text | the very few to whom, in admiration of her noble action, they
42 Text | beloved to the lover is more admired and valued and rewarded
43 Text | deformity?~He assented.~And the admission has been already made that
44 Intro| Socratic irony, (8) which admits of a wide application and
45 Text | will be ashamed of him and admonish him, and no enemy will charge
46 Intro| The order which has been adopted in this translation rests
47 Intro| faith in the invisible, the adoration of the eternal nature, are
48 Text | Androgynous are lovers of women; adulterers are generally of this breed,
49 Text | to have their respective advantages at the time, whether they
50 Text | carouse.~I always do what you advise, and especially what you
51 Text | getting the upper hand and affecting the seasons of the year,
52 Intro| plants; there were elective affinities among the elements, marriages
53 Text | nor prose-writer has ever affirmed that he had any. As Hesiod
54 Intro| perverted as they appear, affords an illustration of the power
55 Intro| as it has been in other ages and countries. But effeminate
56 Text | must have been a long while ago, he said; and who told you—
57 Intro| design. He has suffered agonies from him, and is at his
58 Text | at the time. Will that be agreeable to you?~Aristodemus said
59 Text | have indeed an elevated aim if what you say is true,
60 Text | the correct performance of airs or metres composed already,
61 Text | For I well knew that if Ajax could not be wounded by
62 Text | lie on the couch below me.~Alas, said Alcibiades, how I
63 Intro| afterwards overspread the Alexandrian world. He was not an enthusiast
64 Text | beauty whose approach is the alleviation of the pain of travail.
65 Intro| in the Protagoras, and is alluded to by Aristophanes. Hence
66 Intro| and in the New Comedy the allusions to such topics have disappeared.
67 | along
68 Text | built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices
69 Text | good unbidden go;’~and this alteration may be supported by the
70 Intro| companionship they fell (Plutarch, Amat.; Athenaeus on the authority
71 Intro| this subject; Plutarch, Amatores; Athenaeus; Lysias contra
72 Text | however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of
73 Text | they went out had on an amazing quantity of clothes, and
74 Text | with him and have no more ambiguity. So I gave him a shake,
75 Text | assured;—think only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder
76 Text | theme of our praises. I will amend this defect; and first of
77 Text | dry, and the like. And my ancestor, Asclepius, knowing how
78 Intro| who gathers up the threads anew, and skims the highest points
79 Text | Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts,
80 Intro| may believe writers cited anonymously by Plutarch, Pelop. Vit.
81 Text | there is less difficulty in answering that question.’ ‘Yes,’ she
82 Intro| to have obtained the same answers from Diotima, a wise woman
83 Intro| and passion appear to be antagonistic both in idea and fact. The
84 Text | you may imagine Nestor and Antenor to have been like Pericles;
85 Intro| the courtesy of Agathon anticipates the excuse which Socrates
86 Intro| period the ancient physicist, anticipating modern science, saw, or
87 Intro| world are an indistinct anticipation of an ideal union which
88 Intro| godlike image of an Apollo or Antinous. But the love of youth when
89 | anyone
90 Text | ourselves sleeping in the apartment. All this may be told without
91 Intro| loves, as there are two Aphrodites—one the daughter of Uranus,
92 Intro| still less of Christian Apologists. (4) We observe that at
93 Intro| the confessedly spurious Apology.~There are no means of determining
94 Intro| Athens and Sparta there is an apparent contradiction about them.
95 Intro| begins his discussion by an appeal to mythology, and distinguishes
96 Intro| shown especially in the appeals to mythology, in the reasons
97 Intro| Agathon is requested to appease. Alcibiades then insists
98 Intro| separated from the bodily appetites. The existence of such attachments
99 Intro| you please.~The company applaud the speech of Socrates,
100 Text | done speaking, the company applauded, and Aristophanes was beginning
101 Intro| of Plato, is especially applicable to the Symposium.~The power
102 Text | under a tutor’s care, who is appointed to see to these things,
103 Intro| attained in the Republic, but approached from another side; and there
104 Intro| mortal creature. When beauty approaches, then the conceiving power
105 Text | birth, and therefore, when approaching beauty, the conceiving power
106 Text | the name of the whole is appropriated to those whose affection
107 Intro| having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute,
108 Intro| real, if half-ironical, approval of Socrates. It is the speech
109 Intro| speaks of them as generally approved among Hellenes and disapproved
110 Intro| of mark who condones or approves such connexions. But owing
111 Text | sort of men feel, and is apt to be of women as well as
112 Intro| allusion to the division of Arcadia after the destruction of
113 Text | The arts of medicine and archery and divination were discovered
114 Text | point of view a man fairly argues that in Athens to love and
115 Text | imagine from what you say, has arisen out of a confusion of love
116 Intro| the beautiful; and then arises the question, What does
117 Text | Aristophanes, as you describe (Aristoph. Clouds), just as he is
118 Intro| Aristophanes is more truly Aristophanic than the description of
119 Intro| malignity of Greek scandal, aroused by some personal jealousy
120 Intro| be allowed to disturb the arrangement made at first. With the
121 Intro| of initiation; at last we arrive at the perfect vision of
122 Intro| and, by different paths arriving, behold the vision of the
123 Text | which I had uttered like arrows had wounded him, and so
124 Intro| admirable and exhaustive article of Meier in Ersch and Grueber’
125 Intro| over himself by her. The artifice has the further advantage
126 Intro| that of Aristophanes as the artistic (!), that of Socrates as
127 Text | things. He who from these ascending under the influence of true
128 Intro| mind. Like Hippocrates the Asclepiad, he is a disciple of Heracleitus,
129 Text | the like. And my ancestor, Asclepius, knowing how to implant
130 Intro| them we should hesitate to ascribe, any more than to the attachment
131 Intro| element either of Egypt or of Asia to be found in his writings.
132 Intro| voice of Alcibiades is heard asking for Agathon. He is led in
133 Intro| been the tie which united Asophychus and Cephisodorus with the
134 Intro| may become the highest aspiration of intellectual desire.
135 Intro| sentimentalist, but one who aspired only to see reasoned truth,
136 Intro| the Roman emperors were assailed by similar weapons which
137 Text | present moment we who are here assembled cannot do better than honour
138 Text | manly nature. Some indeed assert that they are shameless,
139 Text | Loves. And am I not right in asserting that there are two goddesses?
140 Text | Eryximachus.~The servant then assisted him to wash, and he lay
141 Intro| larger part is free from such associations. Indecency was an element
142 Text | Socrates, said Agathon:—Let us assume that what you say is true.~
143 Text | thou sayest well; but, assuming Love to be such as you say,
144 Text | that, Socrates, you may be assured;—think only of the ambition
145 Text | sake of immortality.’~I was astonished at her words, and said: ‘
146 Text | ever has been is perfectly astonishing. You may imagine Brasidas
147 Intro| beast in man seem to part asunder more than is natural in
148 Text | Hephaestus, the weaving of Athene, the empire of Zeus over
149 Text | a distance, that whoever attacked him would be likely to meet
150 Intro| confused and pedantic. Plato is attacking the logical feebleness of
151 Intro| animals and plants, and attaining to the highest vision of
152 Intro| which receive a similar attestation in the concluding scene;
153 Intro| Diotima.~The speeches are attested to us by the very best authority.
154 Intro| others were introducing into Attic prose (compare Protag.).
155 Intro| meeting Socrates in holiday attire, is invited by him to a
156 Text | invented a specious reason for attracting Agathon to himself.~Agathon
157 Text | them in some countries is attributable to the laziness of those
158 Intro| attachments may be reasonably attributed to the inferiority and seclusion
159 Intro| love. The value which he attributes to such loves as motives
160 Text | should be very wrong in attributing to you, Agathon, that or
161 Text | expectation raised among the audience that I shall speak well.~
162 Text | whether of body or soul or aught else, but in the place of
163 Intro| is desirous of having an authentic account of them, which he
164 Intro| diffuse; when foulness, she is averted and morose.~But why again
165 Intro| bath and goes to his daily avocations until the evening. Aristodemus
166 Text | took a good rest: he was awakened towards daybreak by a crowing
167 Text | is like that of a satyr. Aye, and there is a resemblance
168 Intro| This took place in the year B.C. 384, which is the forty-fourth
169 Intro| prophet new inspired’ with Bacchanalian revelry, which, like his
170 Intro| ordinary human ones? (Compare Bacon’s Essays, 8:—‘Certainly
171 Text | came to a pause—this is the balanced way in which I have been
172 Text | play of words on (Greek), ‘bald-headed.’) man, halt! So I did as
173 Text | led him at once into the banqueting-hall in which the guests were
174 Text | them to meet together at banquets such as these: in sacrifices,
175 Intro| old, like him going about barefooted, and who had been present
176 Text | himself up to any one’s ‘uses base’ for the sake of money;
177 Intro| sciences, which are not yet based upon the idea of good, through
178 Intro| half a nose and face in basso relievo. Wherefore let us
179 Text | up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures
180 Intro| for knowledge when first beaming upon mankind, the relativity
181 Text | you are very careful and bear in mind that you will be
182 Text | informs us, he was still beardless, and younger far). And greatly
183 Text | the time at which their beards begin to grow. And in choosing
184 Intro| given him in the Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist,
185 Intro| especially, the God and beast in man seem to part asunder
186 Text | animals, birds, as well as beasts, in their desire of procreation,
187 Text | drink, he could if compelled beat us all at that,—wonderful
188 Intro| contained in his love of Beatrice, so Plato would have us
189 Text | been converted into such a beau:—~To a banquet at Agathon’
190 | becoming
191 Text | diffusive, and benign, and begets and bears fruit: at the
192 Text | at the end of the table, begged that he would take the place
193 Text | company were vociferous in begging that he would take his place
194 Text | of his wisdom, born and begotten of him? And as to the artists,
195 Intro| whether true or false. He begs to be absolved from speaking
196 Intro| Arcadians,—and if they do not behave themselves he will divide
197 Text | another occasion on which his behaviour was very remarkable—in the
198 Text | beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be
199 Text | in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the
200 Text | and glory, whether really belonging to him or not, without regard
201 Text | Love, who is our greatest benefactor, both leading us in this
202 Text | of me at every turn. I do beseech you, allow Agathon to lie
203 Text | things have had a like honour bestowed upon them. And only to think
204 Text | pregnant in the body only, betake themselves to women and
205 Text | cured.~Eryximachus said: Beware, friend Aristophanes, although
206 Text | you not how all animals, birds, as well as beasts, in their
207 Text | succeed in this manner. Not a bit; I made no way with him.
208 Text | his agony. For I have been bitten by a more than viper’s tooth;
209 Text | opposite, such as hot and cold, bitter and sweet, moist and dry,
210 Text | which philosophy would bitterly censure if they were done
211 Text | Socrates. I have added my blame of him for his ill-treatment
212 Text | praised, and if he fail he is blamed. And in the pursuit of his
213 Intro| day, whose life has been blasted by them, may be none the
214 Intro| gifts: He is the fairest and blessedest and best of the gods, and
215 Text | memory and giving them the blessedness and immortality which they
216 Text | for he dwells not amid bloomless or fading beauties, whether
217 Text | intelligible; in Elis and Boeotia, and in countries having
218 Text | measures and attack him boldly, and, as I had begun, not
219 Text | you expect to shoot your bolt and escape, Aristophanes?
220 Text | there should be no strong bond of friendship or society
221 Text | reparation—hair, flesh, bones, blood, and the whole body
222 Intro| personage whom philosophy, borrowing from poetry, converted into
223 Intro| eternal and absolute; not bounded by this world, or in or
224 Text | thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on
225 Text | like the harmony of the bow and the lyre. Now there
226 Text | him.~Go and look for him, boy, said Agathon, and bring
227 Text | meeting occurred.~In our boyhood, I replied, when Agathon
228 Text | not only medicine in every branch but the arts of gymnastic
229 Text | astonishing. You may imagine Brasidas and others to have been
230 Text | Diomede, gold in exchange for brass. But look again, sweet friend,
231 Intro| suddenly a band of revellers breaks into the court, and the
232 Text | navel); he also moulded the breast and took out most of the
233 Text | as Homer says, the god breathes into the souls of some heroes,
234 Text | than a dream. But yours is bright and full of promise, and
235 Text | and men, leader best and brightest: in whose footsteps let
236 Text | First Chaos came, and then broad-bosomed Earth, The everlasting seat
237 Text | him they would surely have built noble temples and altars,
238 Text | For example, you are a bully, as I can prove by witnesses,
239 Intro| comprehension of knowledge and the burning intensity of love is a contradiction
240 Text | him; but he who opens the bust and sees what is within
241 Text | wants of my own soul, and busying myself with the concerns
242 Intro| Lysias contra Simonem; Aesch. c. Timarchum.)~The character
243 Text | perchance there be some one who calls what belongs to him the
244 Text | pelican, and rolling his eyes, calmly contemplating enemies as
245 Text | Gives peace on earth and calms the stormy deep, Who stills
246 Text | money; and my only chance of captivating him by my personal attractions
247 Text | match for him; he is the captive and Love is the lord, for
248 Intro| his morals would be better cared for than was possible in
249 Text | perhaps if you are very careful and bear in mind that you
250 Text | will appear to him to be a caricature, and yet I speak, not to
251 Text | the effects of yesterday’s carouse.~I always do what you advise,
252 Text | therefore I am here to-day, carrying on my head these ribands,
253 Text | is: his outer mask is the carved head of the Silenus; but,
254 Text | medicine, so in all these other cases, music implants, making
255 Text | moreover, they afterwards caused him to suffer death at the
256 Intro| barbarians, such as the Celts and Persians, there is no
257 Text | philosophy would bitterly censure if they were done from any
258 Text | lawfully done can justly be censured. Now here and in Lacedaemon
259 Intro| which united Asophychus and Cephisodorus with the great Epaminondas
260 Text | there had been the usual ceremonies, they were about to commence
261 Text | there would have been no chaining or mutilation of the gods,
262 Text | went away. Afterwards I challenged him to the palaestra; and
263 Text | though I know that if you chanced to be in the presence, not
264 Intro| footsteps let every man follow, chanting a strain of love. Such is
265 Text | ill-treated not only me, but Charmides the son of Glaucon, and
266 Text | for I thought your speech charming, and did I not know that
267 Text | the mediator who spans the chasm which divides them, and
268 Text | present I will defer your chastisement. And I must beg you, Agathon,
269 Text | that there was a general cheer; the young man was thought
270 Text | mightiest of the gods; and the chiefest author and giver of virtue
271 Intro| proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection
272 Text | beards begin to grow. And in choosing young men to be their companions,
273 Text | that on which he and his chorus offered the sacrifice of
274 Intro| sentiment. The opinion of Christendom has not altogether condemned
275 Intro| concerning Christ and the church’); as the mediaeval saint
276 Intro| leading men of Hellas, e.g. Cimon, Alcibiades, Critias, Demosthenes,
277 Text | back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and
278 Text | story is only an ingenious circumlocution, of which the point comes
279 Text | Polyhymnia, who must be used with circumspection that the pleasure be enjoyed,
280 Intro| raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough,
281 Intro| if we may believe writers cited anonymously by Plutarch,
282 Intro| have died out with Greek civilization. Among the Romans, and also
283 Text | nature, and belong to the class which I have been describing.
284 Text | show to which of the two classes they respectively belong.
285 Text | beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged
286 Text | I will make my meaning clearer,’ she replied. ‘I mean to
287 Intro| rising above one another to a climax. They are fanciful, partly
288 Text | crept under his threadbare cloak, as the time of year was
289 Text | clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality
290 Text | profane and unmannered persons close up the doors of their ears.~
291 Text | palaestra; and he wrestled and closed with me several times when
292 Text | far nearer tie and have a closer friendship than those who
293 Intro| the meetings of political clubs, and by the tie of military
294 Text | entire men or women,—and clung to that. They were being
295 Text | got up, and throwing my coat about him crept under his
296 Text | pack-asses and smiths and cobblers and curriers, and he is
297 Intro| night. When he wakes at cockcrow the revellers are nearly
298 Text | daybreak by a crowing of cocks, and when he awoke, the
299 Text | avenge Patroclus, or your own Codrus in order to preserve the
300 Intro| cross-lights, so much of the colour of mythology, and of the
301 Intro| speeches embody common opinions coloured with a tinge of philosophy.
302 Text | of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life—
303 Intro| of this confession is the combination of the most degrading passion
304 Intro| and even from imperfect combinations of the two elements in teachers
305 Intro| nature, which is capable of combining good and evil in a degree
306 Text | virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content to love
307 Text | the doors wide open, and a comical thing happened. A servant
308 Intro| poema magis putandum quam comicorum poetarum,’ which has been
309 Text | moment whatever Socrates commanded: they may have escaped the
310 Text | ceremonies, they were about to commence drinking, when Pausanias
311 Text | well, and then we shall commend you.’ After this, supper
312 Text | decided that they are highly commendable and that there no loss of
313 Text | take some other line of commendation; for I perceive that you
314 Intro| he soon passes on to more common-place topics. The antiquity of
315 Intro| brought back by him to its common-sense meaning of love between
316 Intro| language too; for he uses the commonest words as the outward mask
317 Intro| which he has previously communicated to Eryximachus, begins as
318 Text | good; the one capable of communicating wisdom and virtue, the other
319 Text | horseback, and therefore comparatively out of danger. He and Laches
320 Intro| critic of poetry also, who compares Homer and Aeschylus in the
321 Intro| Socrates:—~He begins by comparing Socrates first to the busts
322 Text | remembered was Socrates compelling the other two to acknowledge
323 Text | despot—I would not have him complain of me for crowning you,
324 Intro| of Socrates; one is the complement of the other. At the height
325 Text | no longer care about the completion of our plan. Now I love
326 Text | which, as you know, is complex and manifold. All creation
327 Text | another. The fairness of his complexion is revealed by his habitation
328 Text | I am not ill-prepared to comply with your request, and will
329 Text | to heal their wounds and compose their forms. So he gave
330 Text | you showed when your own compositions were about to be exhibited,
331 Text | In like manner rhythm is compounded of elements short and long,
332 Text | and that there is to be no compulsion, I move, in the next place,
333 Text | wish, fear—saviour, pilot, comrade, helper; glory of gods and
334 Text | should I be justified in concealing the lofty actions of Socrates
335 Intro| Greek writer of mark who condones or approves such connexions.
336 Text | which the generals wanted to confer on me partly on account
337 Text | on the benefits which he confers upon them. But I would rather
338 Text | am ashamed of what I have confessed to him. Many a time have
339 Intro| The singular part of this confession is the combination of the
340 Intro| word has been too often confined to one kind of love. And
341 Intro| experience of Greek history confirms the truth of his remark.
342 Intro| starts up, and a sort of conflict is carried on between them,
343 Intro| the bad, and reconciles conflicting elements and makes them
344 Text | his nature, appear to have congratulated mankind on the benefits
345 Intro| raising.~The Symposium is connected with the Phaedrus both in
346 Intro| nature, are all included, consciously or unconsciously, in Plato’
347 Intro| into a principle. While the consciousness of discord is stronger in
348 Text | how foolish I had been in consenting to take my turn with you
349 Intro| intermediate period, is a consideration not worth raising.~The Symposium
350 Intro| indecency.~Some general considerations occur to our mind when we
351 Text | heavy sleep, and Poverty considering her own straitened circumstances,
352 Intro| The unity of truth, the consistency of the warring elements
353 Text | this the art of medicine consists: for medicine may be regarded
354 Text | of Aristogeiton and the constancy of Harmodius had a strength
355 Text | hostile elements in the constitution and make them loving friends,
356 Text | also. To this they were constrained to assent, being drowsy,
357 Intro| proved also to be the most consummate of rhetoricians (compare
358 Intro| as Dante saw all things contained in his love of Beatrice,
359 Text | to my solicitations, so contemptuous and derisive and disdainful
360 Text | the lover and beloved in contests and trials, until they show
361 Intro| as between ourselves and continental nations at the present time,
362 Text | strength, want to have the continuance of them; for at this moment,
363 Text | would not give it up, but continued thinking from early dawn
364 Text | little water; and if it still continues, tickle your nose with something
365 Intro| Amatores; Athenaeus; Lysias contra Simonem; Aesch. c. Timarchum.)~
366 Text | ugliness she frowns and contracts and has a sense of pain,
367 Intro| silence when he is invited to contradict gives consent to the narrator.
368 Intro| ancients, the identity of contradictories is an absurdity. His notion
369 Text | on all this will, on the contrary, think that we hold these
370 Intro| heights,’ but at the same time contrasts with the natural and necessary
371 Intro| characteristic of the speakers, and contribute in various degrees to the
372 Intro| eloquence of Socrates. Agathon contributes the distinction between
373 Text | Nothing of the sort; he conversed as usual, and spent the
374 Intro| the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly
375 Text | between gods and men, conveying and taking across to the
376 Intro| speech of Eryximachus) who conveys to the gods the prayers
377 Intro| of hearts too, as he has convinced Alcibiades, and made him
378 Intro| ravishes the souls of men; the convincer of hearts too, as he has
379 Text | composition of songs or in the correct performance of airs or metres
380 Text | of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which
381 Intro| he says that in the most corrupt cities individuals are to
382 Text | me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain
383 Text | manly, and have a manly countenance, and they embrace that which
384 Intro| beloved doing or suffering any cowardly or mean act. And a state
385 Intro| fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions
386 Intro| man to an extent hardly credible. We cannot distinguish them,
387 Text | throwing my coat about him crept under his threadbare cloak,
388 Intro| virtuous form.~(Compare Hoeck’s Creta and the admirable and exhaustive
389 Intro| connexion with nameless crimes. He is contented with representing
390 Intro| Alcibiades 1).~There is no criterion of the date of the Symposium,
391 Intro| half-enthusiast. He is the critic of poetry also, who compares
392 Text | The mind begins to grow critical when the bodily eye fails,
393 Intro| the points of view of his critics, and seem to impede rather
394 Intro| old days of Iapetus and Cronos when the gods were at war.
395 Intro| so many half-lights and cross-lights, so much of the colour of
396 Text | awakened towards daybreak by a crowing of cocks, and when he awoke,
397 Text | have him complain of me for crowning you, and neglecting him,
398 Intro| most different degrees of culpability may be included. No charge
399 Text | conversation nor singing over our cups; but simply to drink as
400 Text | supper, some Ionians out of curiosity (I should explain that this
401 Intro| vestiges of old philosophy so curiously blend with germs of future
402 Text | smiths and cobblers and curriers, and he is always repeating
403 Intro| manner different from that customary among ourselves. To most
404 Intro| Meier in Ersch and Grueber’s Cyclopedia on this subject; Plutarch,
405 Text | Aristodemus, of the deme of Cydathenaeum. He had been at Agathon’
406 Text | had shoes, and they looked daggers at him because he seemed
407 Text | He is a great spirit (daimon), and like all spirits he
408 Intro| and heaven. (Aesch. Frag. Dan.) Love became a mythic personage
409 Text | in sacrifices, feasts, dances, he is our lord—who sends
410 Intro| are aware of the political dangers which ensue from them, as
411 Intro| of the ‘fruitio Dei;’ as Dante saw all things contained
412 Intro| incentive which love offers to daring deeds, the examples of Alcestis
413 Text | of which she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment.
414 Text | Love touches not walks in darkness. The arts of medicine and
415 Intro| There is no criterion of the date of the Symposium, except
416 Text | continued thinking from early dawn until noon—there he stood
417 Text | he was awakened towards daybreak by a crowing of cocks, and
418 Text | unrestrained. At last, after a good deal of reflection, Zeus discovered
419 Text | ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.
420 Text | in general spring up and decay, so that in respect of them
421 Text | everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly,
422 Text | their inexperience, and deceive them, and play the fool
423 Intro| only a rule of external decency by which society can divide
424 Text | ennobles them; and custom has decided that they are highly commendable
425 Intro| remark. When Aristophanes declares that love is the desire
426 Text | for surely nothing that is decorously and lawfully done can justly
427 Text | which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will
428 Intro| the tragic poet, has a deeper sense of harmony and reconciliation,
429 Intro| battle of Delium, after the defeat, he might be seen stalking
430 Text | praises. I will amend this defect; and first of all I will
431 Intro| disaffection; the pilot, helper, defender, saviour of men, in whose
432 Text | but for the present I will defer your chastisement. And I
433 Text | endeavour to supply his deficiency. I think that he has rightly
434 Intro| disproved and often cannot be defined) when directed against a
435 Intro| was only shameful if it degenerated into licentiousness. Such
436 Intro| combination of the most degrading passion with the desire
437 Intro| might speak of the ‘fruitio Dei;’ as Dante saw all things
438 Intro| among the elder or Orphic deities. In the idea of the antiquity
439 Text | the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years. She
440 Text | better part in him; parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness,
441 Text | the truly beautiful, and delicate, and perfect, and blessed;
442 Text | love turn to the male, and delight in him who is the more valiant
443 Text | by themselves, and I was delighted. Nothing of the sort; he
444 Intro| has a noble purpose, and delights only in the intelligent
445 Text | praise of love, which were delivered by Socrates, Alcibiades,
446 Text | shoes, Aristodemus, of the deme of Cydathenaeum. He had
447 Intro| in the description of the democratic man of the Republic (compare
448 Text | then, he said, and let us demolish the proverb:—~‘To the feasts
449 Text | Homer himself, who not only demolishes but literally outrages the
450 Intro| at all, but only a great demon or intermediate power (compare
451 Intro| state or individual was demoralized in their whole character.
452 Intro| Cimon, Alcibiades, Critias, Demosthenes, Epaminondas: several of
453 Text | again, Socrates, will not be denied by you. And yet, notwithstanding
454 Text | laid them to sleep, rose to depart; Aristodemus, as his manner
455 Text | world below still be one departed soul instead of two—I ask
456 Text | where there is hardness he departs, where there is softness
457 Text | solicitations, so contemptuous and derisive and disdainful of my beauty—
458 Text | Prodicus for example, who have descanted in prose on the virtues
459 Intro| begins as follows:—~He descants first of all upon the antiquity
460 Intro| and all being: at one end descending to animals and plants, and
461 Text | class which I have been describing. But my words have a wider
462 Text | endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him
463 Intro| final result; they are all designed to prepare the way for Socrates,
464 Text | were a fair youth, and I a designing lover. He was not easily
465 Text | with him, and are utterly despised by him: he regards not at
466 Intro| of another, and himself a despiser of rhetoric, is proved also
467 Text | marvellous head of this universal despot—I would not have him complain
468 Intro| attachments are inimical to despots. The experience of Greek
469 Text | harmonious. Beauty, then, is the destiny or goddess of parturition
470 Text | to that. They were being destroyed, when Zeus in pity of them
471 Text | seasons of the year, is very destructive and injurious, being the
472 Text | and I had not the face to detain him. The second time, still
473 Text | fooled by this man; he is determined to get the better of me
474 Text | reason is beginning to be developed, much about the time at
475 Text | for how can knowledge be devoid of reason? nor again, ignorance,
476 Text | was no one who was a more devoted admirer of Socrates. Moreover,
477 Text | paid by the gods to the devotion and virtue of love. But
478 Intro| and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear
479 Intro| Now the characters of men differ accordingly as they are
480 Intro| household of slaves.~It is difficult to adduce the authority
481 Intro| conceiving power is benign and diffuse; when foulness, she is averted
482 Text | power is propitious, and diffusive, and benign, and begets
483 Text | two and then they will be diminished in strength and increased
484 Text | everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or
485 Text | and Euthydemus the son of Diocles, and many others in the
486 Text | return for appearance—like Diomede, gold in exchange for brass.
487 Intro| cannot be defined) when directed against a person of whom
488 Intro| is a similar harmony or disagreement in the course of the seasons
489 Text | cannot harmonize that which disagrees. In like manner rhythm is
490 Intro| allusions to such topics have disappeared. They seem to have been
491 Intro| most of the barbarians, disapprove of them; partly because
492 Intro| approved among Hellenes and disapproved by barbarians. His speech
493 Intro| figure, were everywhere discerned; and in the Pythagorean
494 Text | there is no difficulty in discerning love which has not yet become
495 Text | in the hope that I may be disconcerted at the expectation raised
496 Text | round, and Socrates was discoursing to them. Aristodemus was
497 Text | courtesy and sends away discourtesy, who gives kindness ever
498 Text | anything to say to their discredit; the reason being, as I
499 Text | who is the son of Metis or Discretion, was one of the guests.
500 Text | essentially common, and has no discrimination, being such as the meaner
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