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 501 Intro|        understand him that we should discuss the fairness of his mode
 502 Intro|           which the theme of love is discussed at length. In both of them
 503 Intro|       different sense, he begins his discussion by an appeal to mythology,
 504 Intro|          cause of more philosophical discussions than any other man, with
 505 Text |        contemptuous and derisive and disdainful of my beauty—which really,
 506 Text |           one, and the desire of the diseased is another; and as Pausanias
 507 Text |              you would be ashamed of disgracing yourself before him—would
 508 Intro|      Phaedrus); of Aristophanes, who disguises under comic imagery a serious
 509 Text |              to him who follows them dishonourably. There is dishonour in yielding
 510 Intro|     revellers appears, who introduce disorder into the feast; the sober
 511 Text |           traders, such conversation displeases me; and I pity you who are
 512 Text |        whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes
 513 Intro|           cannot be either proved or disproved and often cannot be defined)
 514 Intro|            Phaedrus, who reminds the disputants of their tribute to the
 515 Intro|      Alcibiades has done speaking, a dispute begins between him and Agathon
 516 Intro|           one age, which have become distasteful or repugnant to another.
 517 Intro|      writings hardly admit of a more distinct interpretation than a musical
 518 Intro|             appeal to mythology, and distinguishes between the elder and younger
 519 Text |           his mother he is always in distress. Like his father too, whom
 520 Text |            that The One is united by disunion, like the harmony of the
 521 Intro|         describes himself as talking dithyrambs. It is at once a preparation
 522 Text |     intermediate powers are many and diverse, and one of them is Love.’ ‘
 523 Text |            who spans the chasm which divides them, and therefore in him
 524 Intro|             lover is of a nobler and diviner nature.~There is something
 525 Intro|              the outward mask of the divinest truths.~When Alcibiades
 526 Text |           see that you also deny the divinity of Love.’~‘What then is
 527 Intro|            unconsciously, in Plato’s doctrine of love.~The successive
 528 Text |              husbandry are under his dominion. Any one who pays the least
 529 Intro|              the interested lover is doubly disgraced, for if he loses
 530 Intro|            real Socrates this may be doubted: compare his public rebuke
 531 Text |              she has only a dark and doubtful presentiment. Suppose Hephaestus,
 532 Intro|          character. There were many, doubtless, to whom the love of the
 533 Intro|          there is ‘a way upwards and downwards,’ which is the same and
 534 Text |              this Satyric or Silenic drama has been detected, and you
 535 Intro|             salvation of Athens. The dramatic interest of the character
 536 Text |         nearer being drunk. Socrates drank the cup which the attendant
 537 Text |         belly, like the purses which draw in, and he made one mouth
 538 Text |          mean and narrow-minded, but drawing towards and contemplating
 539 Text |           old, as I began by saying, dreadful deeds were done among the
 540 Text |  questionable sort, no better than a dream. But yours is bright and
 541 Text |              ice and in his ordinary dress marched better than the
 542 Intro|               And first Aristophanes drops, and then, as the day is
 543 Text |             those who were yesterday drowned in drink.~I think that you
 544 Text |         constrained to assent, being drowsy, and not quite following
 545 Text |              Odyssey), and strike me dumb. And then I perceived how
 546 Text |            as usual, was not of long duration —Socrates entered. Agathon,
 547 Text |             no shoes, nor a house to dwell in; on the bare earth exposed
 548 Intro|            natural feeling of a mind dwelling in the world of ideas. When
 549 Text |              doing who show all this eagerness and heat which is called
 550 Intro|          creator and artist.~All the earlier speeches embody common opinions
 551 Text |              continued thinking from early dawn until noon—there he
 552 Intro|            Yet there is a mixture of earnestness in this jest; three serious
 553 Intro|           so-called mysticism of the East was not strange to the Greek
 554 Text |              next, but either he had eaten too much, or from some other
 555 Text |          there is such a flutter and ecstasy about beauty whose approach
 556 Text |            good man; and he tries to educate him; and at the touch of
 557 Intro|     companionship. They were also an educational institution: a young person
 558 Text |              one who still feels the effects of yesterday’s carouse.~
 559 Intro|    degenerate into sentimentalism or effeminacy. The possibility of an honourable
 560 Intro|            poetry, converted into an efficient cause of creation. The traces
 561 Intro|            foreign element either of Egypt or of Asia to be found in
 562 Text |           Athens; and not three have elapsed since I became acquainted
 563 Text |             the short interval which elapses between youth and age, and
 564 Intro|              or by the Boeotians and Eleans for encouraging male loves; (
 565 Intro|           traditions of Pythagorean, Eleatic, or Megarian systems, and ‘
 566 Text |           which I was admitted—and I elect myself master of the feast
 567 Intro|            sex in plants; there were elective affinities among the elements,
 568 Intro|            is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘
 569 Text |           friend, you have indeed an elevated aim if what you say is true,
 570 Intro|              The rhetoric of Agathon elevates the soul to ‘sunlit heights,’
 571 Intro|              foreign extraction. She elicits the final truth from one
 572 Text |              easily intelligible; in Elis and Boeotia, and in countries
 573 Text |            been made the theme of an eloquent discourse; and many other
 574 Text |            And as you have spoken so eloquently of his nature, may I ask
 575      | elsewhere
 576 Intro|              his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from former philosophies.
 577 Intro|             All the earlier speeches embody common opinions coloured
 578 Text |           and in taking the place he embraced Agathon and crowned him.
 579 Text |         ready to return love, always embracing that which is akin to him.
 580 Intro|    Epaminondas: several of the Roman emperors were assailed by similar
 581 Text |           fancying myself to be well employed, but I was really a most
 582 Text |            quarts—this he filled and emptied, and bade the attendant
 583 Text |       Oeagrus, the harper, they sent empty away, and presented to him
 584 Intro|              them with affection and emptying them of disaffection; the
 585 Text |            human ones? Who would not emulate them in the creation of
 586 Text |              from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and
 587 Text |        fancied that he was seriously enamoured of my beauty, and I thought
 588 Text |           glorious god, Love, has no encomiast among all the poets who
 589 Intro|             fanciful and exaggerated encomiums of the god Love; (6) the
 590 Text |      Consider, too, how great is the encouragement which all the world gives
 591 Text |             the other, and therefore encourages some to pursue, and others
 592 Intro|             Boeotians and Eleans for encouraging male loves; (7) the ruling
 593 Text |      beginning as their lover he has ended by making them pay their
 594 Intro|           and means have married and endowed the public.’)~I will now
 595 Text |           which is a thing not to be endured; you must drink—for that
 596 Text |         without flexure he could not enfold all things, or wind his
 597 Text |            my life? Now this was the engagement in which I received the
 598 Intro|          Plato and the Orators, than England in the time of Fielding
 599 Text |  circumspection that the pleasure be enjoyed, but may not generate licentiousness;
 600 Text |           who had any real powers of enjoyment; though not willing to drink,
 601 Intro|             The limited affection is enlarged, and enabled to behold the
 602 Intro|           personal jealousy or party enmity, may have converted the
 603 Text |             lover have a grace which ennobles them; and custom has decided
 604 Intro|              beauty or good, without enquiring precisely into the relation
 605 Text |             was ever more hopelessly enslaved by another. All this happened
 606 Text |             at home; great confusion ensued, and every one was compelled
 607 Intro|            everywhere.~Some raillery ensues first between Aristophanes
 608 Text |            make myself ridiculous by entering into any rivalry with you.
 609 Text |           fair and good; he is bold, enterprising, strong, a mighty hunter,
 610 Intro|        informed of the nature of the entertainment; and is ready to join, if
 611 Intro|     Alexandrian world. He was not an enthusiast or a sentimentalist, but
 612 Text |           one may recognise the pure enthusiasts in the very character of
 613 Text |           youths, whose presence now entrances you; and you and many a
 614 Intro|           young person was specially entrusted by his parents to some elder
 615 Text |              arms about one another, entwined in mutual embraces, longing
 616 Text |           for the fluent and orderly enumeration of all your singularities
 617 Text |              I do, he goes wild with envy and jealousy, and not only
 618 Intro|             figure of human (compare Eph. ‘This is a great mystery,
 619 Text |            told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared
 620 Intro|      regarded by him as almost on an equality with that of men; and he
 621 Text |             and their companions and equals cast in their teeth anything
 622 Text |              in the future, which is equivalent to saying that he desires
 623 Text |              and he who knows how to eradicate and how to implant love,
 624 Text |          Socrates, said Agathon, and ere long you and I will have
 625 Intro|       exhaustive article of Meier in Ersch and Grueber’s Cyclopedia
 626 Text |     universally admitted to be in an especial manner the attribute of
 627 Intro|             swiftness; and they were essaying to scale heaven and attack
 628 Intro|         human ones? (Compare Bacon’s Essays, 8:—‘Certainly the best
 629 Text |           and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear
 630 Text |            and rhythm. Again, in the essential nature of harmony and rhythm
 631 Intro|        degrees can seldom be rightly estimated, because under the same
 632      | etc
 633 Text |              generation is a sort of eternity and immortality,’ she replied; ‘
 634 Intro|              and Pausanias being the ethical, Eryximachus and Aristophanes
 635 Text |              as Euripides would say (Eurip. Hyppolytus)) was a promise
 636 Intro|              the recollection of the event is more likely to have been
 637 Text |           change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of
 638 Text |             myself and you; no other evidence is required.~COMPANION:
 639 Text |            the love of beauty, as is evident, for with deformity Love
 640 Text |             which the soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell,
 641 Intro|              It may be observed that evils which admit of degrees can
 642 Text |              sake. I say, that he is exactly like the busts of Silenus,
 643 Intro|            true, but as fanciful and exaggerated encomiums of the god Love; (
 644 Intro|          offers to daring deeds, the examples of Alcestis and Achilles,
 645 Text |        tenderness of her love so far exceeded theirs, that she made them
 646 Text |       returning alive to earth; such exceeding honour is paid by the gods
 647 Text |              not only is he just but exceedingly temperate, for Temperance
 648      | except
 649 Intro|              remarked that this very excess of evil has been the stimulus
 650 Intro|           from Apollodorus, the same excitable, or rather ‘mad’ friend
 651 Intro|           there all this flutter and excitement about love? Because all
 652 Intro|            never in the least degree excuses the depraved love of the
 653 Intro|              the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imputations. But
 654 Intro|          Creta and the admirable and exhaustive article of Meier in Ersch
 655 Intro|         means only the succession of existences; even knowledge comes and
 656 Intro|             At last Zeus hit upon an expedient. Let us cut them in two,
 657 Text |             loss of them, or, having experienced the benefits of money and
 658 Text |            each of them individually experiences a like change. For what
 659 Intro|           whose thoughts are clearly explained in his language. There is
 660 Intro|          pass round, and Socrates is explaining to the two others, who are
 661 Intro|              harmony of opposites he explains in a new way as the harmony
 662 Text |           falsely, do you, Socrates, expose the falsehood). Well, he
 663 Text |          dwell in; on the bare earth exposed he lies under the open heaven,
 664 Text |              as good as I could make extempore.~Pausanias came to a pause—
 665 Intro|              But why again does this extend not only to men but also
 666 Intro|        ancients in music, and may be extended to the other applied sciences.
 667 Intro|           the world and in man to an extent hardly credible. We cannot
 668 Intro|       harvest:’ it is only a rule of external decency by which society
 669 Intro|          mysterious woman of foreign extraction. She elicits the final truth
 670 Intro|              which has escaped them. Extravagant praises have been ascribed
 671 Intro|        hyperlogical in form and also extremely confused and pedantic. Plato
 672 Text |            stage with the actors and faced the vast theatre altogether
 673 Intro|            They are fanciful, partly facetious performances, ‘yet also
 674 Intro|           the moral and intellectual faculties.~The divine image of beauty
 675 Text |         dwells not amid bloomless or fading beauties, whether of body
 676 Text |         critical when the bodily eye fails, and it will be a long time
 677 Intro|              wisdom. He narrates the failure of his design. He has suffered
 678 Text |         small question which I would fain ask:—Is not the good also
 679 Text |         makes Menelaus, who is but a fainthearted warrior, come unbidden (
 680 Text |             this point of view a man fairly argues that in Athens to
 681 Text |           the ordering of states and families, and which is called temperance
 682 Text |            same may be said of other famous men, but of this strange
 683 Intro|           many touches of humour and fancy, which remind us of the
 684 Text |             running about the world, fancying myself to be well employed,
 685 Intro|         allowed to play all sorts of fantastic tricks; he may swear and
 686 Text |            lips and not of the mind. Farewell then to such a strain: for
 687 Intro|             hearts of men,—strangely fascinated by Socrates, and possessed
 688 Text |            and golden images of such fascinating beauty that I was ready
 689 Text |               he replied, in Homeric fashion, one or other of them may
 690 Text |             in the train of gods, he fashioned Love.’~And Acusilaus agrees
 691 Text |            was when he wanted to run fast. Now the sexes were three,
 692 Text |              at the centre, which he fastened in a knot (the same which
 693 Text |           the voice of the siren, my fate would be like that of others,—
 694 Intro|              have inherited from our fathers shall not degenerate into
 695 Intro|     temptations of human nature. The fault of taste, which to us is
 696 Intro|            liable to degenerate into fearful evil. Pausanias is very
 697 Text |         victory I refused yesterday, fearing a crowd, but promising that
 698 Text |         banquet of Agamemnon, who is feasting and offering sacrifices,
 699 Intro|           effeminate manners and the feeble rhythms of his verse; of
 700 Intro|             is attacking the logical feebleness of the sophists and rhetoricians,
 701 Text |             Phoenix;—he was a little fellow, who never wore any shoes,
 702 Text |               is willing to tell his fellow-sufferers only, as they alone will
 703 Text |              and the Love who is her fellow-worker is rightly named common,
 704 Text |            in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in resources; a philosopher
 705 Text |            compared to him. Yet at a festival he was the only person who
 706 Intro|                Symp.), is not a mere fiction of Plato’s, but seems actually
 707 Intro|          than England in the time of Fielding and Smollett, or France
 708 Intro|          strange to the Greek of the fifth century before Christ. The
 709 Text |          another in honour; and when fighting at each other’s side, although
 710 Text |      basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose
 711 Text |               and bade the attendant fill it again for Socrates. Observe,
 712 Intro|            of one mind at a banquet, filling them with affection and
 713 Intro|         universal to many, which are finally reunited in a single science (
 714 Text |              drink, are fortunate in finding that the stronger ones are
 715 Text |              and so I have put on my finery, because he is such a fine
 716 Text |           says.’~When Alcibiades had finished, there was a laugh at his
 717 Intro|              side with odd and even, finite and infinite.~But Plato
 718 Text |           one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of
 719 Intro|            himself regards the first five speeches, not as true, but
 720 Text |        attempt to restrain them from fixing their affections on women
 721 Text |         having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture
 722 Text |             feet swathed in felt and fleeces: in the midst of this, Socrates
 723 Text |              is himself the witness, fleeing out of the way of age, who
 724 Text |            loss and reparation—hair, flesh, bones, blood, and the whole
 725 Intro|           union of the spiritual and fleshly, the interpenetration of
 726 Text |          youngest, and also he is of flexile form; for if he were hard
 727 Text |             he were hard and without flexure he could not enfold all
 728 Text |              immortal, but alive and flourishing at one moment when he is
 729 Text |              is spent in mocking and flouting at them. But when I opened
 730 Intro|              to deny that ‘from them flow most of the benefits of
 731 Text |           come into my mind; for the fluent and orderly enumeration
 732 Text |        others have suffered from the flute-playing of this satyr. Yet hear
 733 Text |             shops, holding pipes and flutes in their mouths; and they
 734 Text |            that your nerves could be fluttered at a small party of friends.~
 735 Intro|       preparation for Socrates and a foil to him. The rhetoric of
 736 Text |            delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness, grace; regardful
 737 Text |              compelled to go without food—on such occasions, which
 738 Text |            said Alcibiades, how I am fooled by this man; he is determined
 739 Text |              thing. But when parents forbid their sons to talk with
 740 Text |              of young boys should be forbidden by law, because their future
 741 Intro|           old comedy, its coarse and forcible imagery, and the licence
 742 Text |           just at present I must not forget the encomium on Love which
 743 Text |          well.~I should be strangely forgetful, Agathon replied Socrates,
 744 Intro|            through their pupils, not forgetting by the way to satirize the
 745 Text |              say), and the gods will forgive his transgression, for there
 746 Text |              to drink much, I may be forgiven for saying, as a physician,
 747 Text |           his words. For, although I forgot to mention this to you before,
 748 Text |            not to know how much more formidable to a man of sense a few
 749 Text |            round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four
 750 Text |              tested before long. His fortitude in enduring cold was also
 751 Text |             who never can drink, are fortunate in finding that the stronger
 752 Text |        parentage is, so also are his fortunes. In the first place he is
 753 Intro|          year B.C. 384, which is the forty-fourth year of Plato’s life. The
 754 Intro|             benign and diffuse; when foulness, she is averted and morose.~
 755 Intro|            earth and heaven. (Aesch. Frag. Dan.) Love became a mythic
 756 Text |            no music in him before (A fragment of the Sthenoaoea of Euripides.);
 757 Text |           not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even
 758 Intro|            Fielding and Smollett, or France in the nineteenth century.
 759 Intro|             hides, and that the more frequent mention of such topics is
 760 Text |              power, whether a man is frightened into surrender by the loss
 761 Text |            the sight of ugliness she frowns and contracts and has a
 762 Text |         benign, and begets and bears fruit: at the sight of ugliness
 763 Intro|            saint might speak of the ‘fruitio Dei;’ as Dante saw all things
 764 Text |             the two laws of love are fulfilled and meet in one—then, and
 765 Intro|            tinge of philosophy. They furnish the material out of which
 766 Intro|      Symposium, except that which is furnished by the allusion to the division
 767 Text |            year is termed astronomy. Furthermore all sacrifices and the whole
 768 Intro|            playing both sides of the game,’ as in the Gorgias and
 769 Text |           those days), went into the garden of Zeus and fell into a
 770 Text |          hiccough is no better, then gargle with a little water; and
 771 Text |             the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths,
 772 Intro|            the way for Socrates, who gathers up the threads anew, and
 773 Intro|             of mythology was that of gender; and at a later period the
 774 Text |           the transposition the male generated in the female in order that
 775 Intro|            yet not without a certain generosity which gained the hearts
 776 Text |               not to mention that no generous friendship ever sprang from
 777 Intro|              title to be regarded as genuine than the confessedly spurious
 778 Intro|          Plato, throw a doubt on the genuineness of the work. The Symposium
 779 Intro|       feeling not unlike that of the German philosopher, who says that ‘
 780 Intro|              so curiously blend with germs of future knowledge, that
 781 Text |      presence the love of popularity gets the better of me. And therefore
 782 Text |             whereas the wanton love, getting the upper hand and affecting
 783 Text |   thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an
 784 Text |              all the persons who are gifted with them; mankind are nothing
 785 Text |              the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life, and of
 786 Text |              be much more sorry than glad, if he were to die: so that
 787 Intro|             taste, which to us is so glaring and which was recognized
 788 Text |             the love of the heavenly godess, and is heavenly, and of
 789 Intro|          beauty—a worship as of some godlike image of an Apollo or Antinous.
 790 Intro|              ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings,
 791 Text |              I saw in him divine and golden images of such fascinating
 792 Text |            he can talk, especially a good-looking one, he will no longer care
 793 Intro|               that we may obtain the goods of which love is the author,
 794 Text |        Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian or Gorgonian head of the
 795 Text |       shaking at me the Gorginian or Gorgonian head of the great master
 796 Intro|      Phaedrus is marked by a sort of Gothic irregularity. More too than
 797 Text |             and the cowardice of the governed; on the other hand, the
 798 Text |              should therefore have a grand opportunity of hearing him
 799 Text |         premisses of my discourse.~I grant the permission, said Phaedrus:
 800 Text |              longer as hitherto like grasshoppers in the ground, but in one
 801 Intro|              taste of the epicure be gratified without inflicting upon
 802 Text |              the epicure that he may gratify his tastes without the attendant
 803 Intro|          also times when elders look grave and guard their young relations,
 804 Text |             to Love every species of greatness and glory, whether really
 805 Text |            place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing
 806 Text |              passion of this man has grown quite a serious matter to
 807 Text |               until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at
 808 Intro|        article of Meier in Ersch and Grueber’s Cyclopedia on this subject;
 809 Intro|           when elders look grave and guard their young relations, and
 810 Text |      discovered by Apollo, under the guidance of love and desire; so that
 811 Text |      principle which ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live—
 812 Text |           forms; and first, if he be guided by his instructor aright,
 813 Intro|              matter there is a great gulf fixed between Greek and
 814 Text |              also of the soul, whose habits, tempers, opinions, desires,
 815 Intro|              the two others, who are half-asleep, that the genius of tragedy
 816 Intro|           his name, is half-sophist, half-enthusiast. He is the critic of poetry
 817 Intro|           Phaedrus is half-mythical, half-ethical; and he himself, true to
 818 Intro|            and receives the real, if half-ironical, approval of Socrates. It
 819 Intro|             s own. There are so many half-lights and cross-lights, so much
 820 Intro|             discourse of Phaedrus is half-mythical, half-ethical; and he himself,
 821 Text |             is the speech, Phaedrus, half-playful, yet having a certain measure
 822 Intro|        Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist, half-enthusiast. He is
 823 Text |         Greek), ‘bald-headed.’) man, halt! So I did as I was bid;
 824 Text |              s side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the
 825 Text |             such as that of arts and handicrafts, is mean and vulgar. Now
 826 Text |            of the original man, they hang about men and embrace them,
 827 Intro|              But the suspicion which hangs over other writings of Xenophon,
 828 Intro|        Socrates to make a lengthened harangue, the speech takes the form
 829 Text |        exception, for where there is hardness he departs, where there
 830 Text |          there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees. In
 831 Text |             no spirit; he was only a harp-player, and did not dare like Alcestis
 832 Intro|          they grow together unto the harvest:’ it is only a rule of external
 833 Text |           why, in the first place, a hasty attachment is held to be
 834 Text |           than most of us like:—Love hates him and will not come near
 835 Text |           judges you shall be of the haughty virtue of Socrates—nothing
 836 Text |         pursued who are running away headlong. I particularly observed
 837 Text |              men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the
 838 Text |               making one of two, and healing the state of man. Each of
 839 Intro|       feeling to the strain which he hears. The Symposium of Plato
 840 Intro|              not suspect evil in the hearty kiss or embrace of a male
 841 Text |          show all this eagerness and heat which is called love? and
 842 Text |              of Zeus and fell into a heavy sleep, and Poverty considering
 843 Text |            where he served among the heavy-armed,—I had a better opportunity
 844 Intro|              age in the mind of some Hebrew prophet or other Eastern
 845 Text |            he abstained from slaying Hector. Nevertheless he gave his
 846 Intro|      complement of the other. At the height of divine inspiration, when
 847 Intro|         interest of the character is heightened by the recollection of his
 848 Intro|             be the friend of God and heir of immortality.~Such, Phaedrus,
 849      | Hence
 850      | hereafter
 851      | hers
 852 Intro|            To most of them we should hesitate to ascribe, any more than
 853 Text |              to the greater and more hidden ones which are the crown
 854 Text |            have gone so far about to hide the purpose of your satyr’
 855 Intro|              the things which nature hides, and that the more frequent
 856 Text |            has decided that they are highly commendable and that there
 857 Intro|       Prodicus, although there is no hint given that Plato is specially
 858 Intro|              works of love, and also hints incidentally that love is
 859 Intro|            well as of the mind. Like Hippocrates the Asclepiad, he is a disciple
 860 Intro|             sacrifices. At last Zeus hit upon an expedient. Let us
 861 Intro|         moist and dry, hot and cold, hoar frost and blight; and diseases
 862 Text |              animals and plants; for hoar-frost and hail and blight spring
 863 Intro|              virtuous form.~(Compare Hoeck’s Creta and the admirable
 864 Text |                I said. ‘And the same holds of love. For you may say
 865 Intro|      Aristodemus meeting Socrates in holiday attire, is invited by him
 866 Intro|           world:—that in speaking of holy things and persons there
 867 Text |            together,’~he replied, in Homeric fashion, one or other of
 868 Intro|            the truth of Love he must honestly confess that he is not a
 869 Text |             dead. Wherefore the gods honoured him even above Alcestis,
 870 Text |             instead of accepting and honouring and reverencing the harmonious
 871 Text |            in all his actions, a man honours the other love, whether
 872 Text |        Potidaea, for I was myself on horseback, and therefore comparatively
 873 Intro|              with his works. Of this hostility there is no trace in the
 874 Text |             imagine that you are our hosts, and that I and the company
 875 Intro|              was possible in a great household of slaves.~It is difficult
 876 Text |          streets, or at the doors of houses, taking his rest; and like
 877 Intro|              theme of discourse, and huge quantities of wine are drunk.~
 878 Text |         would thus learn a lesson of humility. Apollo was also bidden
 879 Intro|              wanting many touches of humour and fancy, which remind
 880 Intro|             Christian might speak of hungering and thirsting after righteousness;
 881 Text |       enterprising, strong, a mighty hunter, always weaving some intrigue
 882 Text |          desire to praise the youth.~Hurrah! cried Agathon, I will rise
 883 Text |           love then evil and foul?’ ‘Hush,’ she cried; ‘must that
 884 Text |            other gods have poems and hymns made in their honour, the
 885 Intro|        follows; and which is at once hyperlogical in form and also extremely
 886 Intro|         beauty (Greek), and from the hypotheses of the Mathematical sciences,
 887 Text |          Euripides would say (Eurip. Hyppolytus)) was a promise of the lips
 888 Text |            with his bare feet on the ice and in his ordinary dress
 889 Intro|             contrast to this extreme idealism, Alcibiades, accompanied
 890 Text |            man may. Would that be an ignoble life?’~Such, Phaedrus—and
 891 Text |             heal (from Pope’s Homer, Il.)’~shall prescribe and we
 892 Text |           power. And, therefore, the ill-repute into which these attachments
 893 Text |            those who make them to be ill-reputed; that is to say, to the
 894 Text |      ill-treatment of me; and he has ill-treated not only me, but Charmides
 895 Text |              my blame of him for his ill-treatment of me; and he has ill-treated
 896 Text |         helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment
 897 Intro|            pity, the victims of such illusions in our own day, whose life
 898 Text |            more question in order to illustrate my meaning: Is not a brother
 899 Text |              attribute to Love every imaginable form of praise which can
 900 Intro|          sage, but has now become an imagination only. Yet this ‘passion
 901 Intro|              can easily conceive. In imaginative persons, especially, the
 902 Intro|          recalls the first speech in imitation of Lysias, occurring in
 903 Intro|            more characteristic of an imitator than of an original writer.
 904 Text |              When I reflected on the immeasurable inferiority of my own powers,
 905 Intro|            extending beyond the mere immediate relation of the sexes. He
 906 Intro|           and Patroclus in Homer, an immoral or licentious character.
 907 Text |          increase, or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and
 908 Text |             again, Socrates will not impeach or deny), but he was more
 909 Intro|             his critics, and seem to impede rather than to assist us
 910 Text |             ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the
 911 Intro|           and states;’ and even from imperfect combinations of the two
 912 Text |             second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess
 913 Intro|            the Protagoras. He is the impersonation of lawlessness— ‘the lion’
 914 Text |             these other cases, music implants, making love and unison
 915 Text |             like change. For what is implied in the word “recollection,”
 916 Intro|             eternal nature, seems to imply that she too is eternal (
 917 Intro|            Plato. And as there is no impossibility in supposing that ‘one king,
 918 Text |      gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is
 919 Text |     attachments because they see the impropriety and evil of them; for surely
 920 Intro|            easily set going than the imputation of secret wickedness (which
 921 Intro|              is not exempt from evil imputations. But the morals of a nation
 922 Text |           body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable,
 923 Text |         charms, and all prophecy and incantation, find their way. For God
 924 Text |            which, as you know, being incapable of giving a reason, is not
 925 Intro|      blessing of having a lover, the incentive which love offers to daring
 926 Intro|              of love, and also hints incidentally that love is always of beauty,
 927 Intro|              that the philosopher is incited to take the first step in
 928 Text |         youth, and are not naturally inclined to marry or beget children,—
 929 Intro|             beginning with Homer and including the tragedians, philosophers,
 930 Text |             be strong?~That would be inconsistent with our previous admissions.~
 931 Text |       without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted
 932 Text |           diminished in strength and increased in numbers; this will have
 933 Intro|             legs, eight in all, with incredible rapidity. Yet there is a
 934 Text |              a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always
 935 Intro|              himself is a sufficient indication to Agathon that Socrates
 936 Text |            often he says to me in an indignant tone:—‘What a strange thing
 937 Text |             does good and evil quite indiscriminately. The goddess who is his
 938 Text |           the same; but each of them individually experiences a like change.
 939 Text |       everybody else either remained indoors, or if they went out had
 940 Text |          called to account, I may be induced to let you off.~Aristophanes
 941 Text |            not to take them in their inexperience, and deceive them, and play
 942 Text |              so that any ignorant or inexperienced person might feel disposed
 943 Text |             agony when they take the infection of love, which begins with
 944 Text |             not rather the word. The inference that he who desires something
 945 Intro|            Nor should we be right in inferring from the prevalence of any
 946 Intro|             odd and even, finite and infinite.~But Plato seems also to
 947 Text |           some rare beauty of a kind infinitely higher than any which I
 948 Text |               shall I attack him and inflict the punishment before you
 949 Intro|         epicure be gratified without inflicting upon him the attendant penalty
 950 Intro|              affected by the Eastern influences which afterwards overspread
 951 Text |           But I will do my utmost to inform you, and do you follow if
 952 Text |        desired, that wisdom could be infused by touch, out of the fuller
 953 Text |               Love of his own nature infuses into the lover.~Love will
 954 Text |            of pangs, more violent in ingenuous youth than any serpent’s
 955 Intro|              manliness which we have inherited from our fathers shall not
 956 Intro|             the public.’)~I will now initiate you, she said, into the
 957 Intro|        higher and a higher degree of initiation; at last we arrive at the
 958 Text |              is very destructive and injurious, being the source of pestilence,
 959 Text |              can we drink with least injury to ourselves? I can assure
 960 Intro|           heights—of penetrating the inmost secret of philosophy. The
 961 Intro|       application and reveals a deep insight into the world:—that in
 962 Intro|        serious principles seem to be insinuated:— first, that man cannot
 963 Intro|           Homer and Aeschylus in the insipid and irrational manner of
 964 Text |              I replied. ‘Do not then insist,’ she said, ‘that what is
 965 Intro|             appease. Alcibiades then insists that they shall drink, and
 966 Text |          gods could not suffer their insolence to be unrestrained. At last,
 967 Text |           legs, and if they continue insolent and will not be quiet, I
 968 Intro|              At the height of divine inspiration, when the force of nature
 969 Text |            he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?—he
 970 Intro|           which was alone capable of inspiring the modern feeling of romance
 971 Text |           cried Agathon, I will rise instantly, that I may be praised by
 972 Intro|             Because they too have an instinct of immortality. Even in
 973 Intro|              the natural and healthy instincts of mankind shall alone be
 974 Text |          attention:~‘He who has been instructed thus far in the things of
 975 Text |               if he be guided by his instructor aright, to love one such
 976 Text |        disease ten years. She was my instructress in the art of love, and
 977 Intro|             the true love is akin to intellect and political activity;
 978 Text |             and those who are as yet intemperate only that they may become
 979 Text |             and as he was being led, intending to crown Agathon, he took
 980 Text |              of one another. For the intense yearning which each of them
 981 Intro|            knowledge and the burning intensity of love is a contradiction
 982 Text |            of Love, but this was not intentional, and you, Aristophanes,
 983 Intro|              likewise offers several interesting points of comparison. But
 984 Text |         inimical to tyranny; for the interests of rulers require that their
 985 Intro|           the serious, are so subtly intermingled in it, and vestiges of old
 986 Intro|           spiritual and fleshly, the interpenetration of the moral and intellectual
 987 Intro|             admit of a more distinct interpretation than a musical composition;
 988 Intro|      knowledge, that agreement among interpreters is not to be expected. The
 989 Text |            said, ‘is his power?’ ‘He interprets,’ she replied, ‘between
 990 Intro|      expressed by him if he had been interrogated about them. Yet Plato was
 991 Text |           which is not true, you may interrupt me if you will, and say ‘
 992 Text |              presence?~Here Phaedrus interrupted them, saying: not answer
 993 Text |           same, and yet in the short interval which elapses between youth
 994 Text |              love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out
 995 Intro|           which Plato also obscurely intimates the union of the spiritual
 996 Text |              was in a great state of intoxication, and kept roaring and shouting ‘
 997 Text |          hunter, always weaving some intrigue or other, keen in the pursuit
 998 Intro|            of revellers appears, who introduce disorder into the feast;
 999 Intro|          Socrates, who is afterwards introduced in the Phaedo. He had imagined
1000 Intro|             Prodicus and others were introducing into Attic prose (compare
1001 Intro|                                      INTRODUCTION~Of all the works of Plato