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1002 Text | go and see who were the intruders. ‘If they are friends of
1003 Text | one or other of them may invent an excuse by the way (Iliad).~
1004 Intro| ideas, the faith in the invisible, the adoration of the eternal
1005 Text | friends of ours,’ he said, ‘invite them in, but if not, say
1006 Text | pleading their suit. In Ionia and other places, and generally
1007 Text | words he replied in the ironical manner which is so characteristic
1008 Intro| Aeschylus in the insipid and irrational manner of the schools of
1009 Intro| marked by a sort of Gothic irregularity. More too than in any other
1010 Text | knowledge of the religious or irreligious tendencies which exist in
1011 Intro| that man cannot exist in isolation; he must be reunited if
1012 | itself
1013 Text | with a massive garland of ivy and violets, his head flowing
1014 Text | consent to this, and not be jealous, for I have a great desire
1015 Text | philosopher.~Well, he said, jesting apart, tell me when the
1016 Intro| entertainment; and is ready to join, if only in the character
1017 Text | singing in his honour and joining in that sweet strain with
1018 Text | to find a place, not by a joker or lover of jokes, like
1019 Text | not by a joker or lover of jokes, like Aristophanes, but
1020 Intro| lovers’ perjuries they say Jove laughs’); he may be a servant,
1021 Text | this Dionysus shall be the judge; but at present you are
1022 Intro| of a nation are not to be judged of wholly by its literature.
1023 Text | want of nothing, is in my judgment, Agathon, absolutely and
1024 Text | Nor, again, should I be justified in concealing the lofty
1025 Text | decorously and lawfully done can justly be censured. Now here and
1026 Intro| comic and tragic poet into juxtaposition, as if by accident. A suitable ‘
1027 Text | some intrigue or other, keen in the pursuit of wisdom,
1028 Text | state of intoxication, and kept roaring and shouting ‘Where
1029 Text | celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the
1030 Text | in order to preserve the kingdom for his sons, if they had
1031 Intro| suspect evil in the hearty kiss or embrace of a male friend ‘
1032 Text | suddenly there was a great knocking at the door of the house,
1033 Text | my ancestor, Asclepius, knowing how to implant friendship
1034 Text | is older than Iapetus and Kronos:—not so; I maintain him
1035 Intro| observe that at Thebes and Lacedemon the attachment of an elder
1036 Intro| And by the steps of a ‘ladder reaching to heaven’ we pass
1037 Text | of their ears.~When the lamp was put out and the servants
1038 Intro| into another, and that the larger part is free from such associations.
1039 Intro| come from the man-woman are lascivious and adulterous; those who
1040 Text | pretended that the hour was late and that he had much better
1041 | latter
1042 Text | better, I shall only be laughed at by them.~Do you expect
1043 Intro| perjuries they say Jove laughs’); he may be a servant,
1044 Text | have been led to deny the lawfulness of such attachments because
1045 Intro| is the impersonation of lawlessness— ‘the lion’s whelp, who
1046 Intro| mysteries of love, to which he lays claim here and elsewhere (
1047 Text | countries is attributable to the laziness of those who hold this opinion
1048 Text | glory of gods and men, leader best and brightest: in whose
1049 Text | have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that
1050 Text | a shoemaker might smooth leather upon a last; he left a few,
1051 Intro| will be purified of earthly leaven, and will behold beauty,
1052 Text | because generation always leaves behind a new existence in
1053 Text | shall hop about on a single leg.’ He spoke and cut men in
1054 Intro| creations of all are those of legislators, in honour of whom temples
1055 Intro| character for Socrates to make a lengthened harangue, the speech takes
1056 Intro| and we may suppose the less-known characters of Pausanias
1057 Text | children.~‘These are the lesser mysteries of love, into
1058 Intro| opportunity of receiving lessons of wisdom. He narrates the
1059 Text | Socrates, said Aristodemus, lest this may still be my case;
1060 Intro| few temperaments they are liable to degenerate into fearful
1061 Text | with the rest; and then libations were offered, and after
1062 Text | oath. Such is the entire liberty which gods and men have
1063 Intro| forcible imagery, and the licence of its language in speaking
1064 Intro| in Homer, an immoral or licentious character. There were many,
1065 Text | the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with
1066 Intro| application, he touches lightly upon a difficulty which
1067 Text | play to herself, or, if she likes, to the women who are within (
1068 Intro| all things, and having no limit of space or time: this is
1069 Intro| harmonious and one. The limited affection is enlarged, and
1070 Intro| That good and evil are linked together in human nature,
1071 Intro| impersonation of lawlessness— ‘the lion’s whelp, who ought not to
1072 Intro| and in the Pythagorean list of opposites male and female
1073 Intro| proposes that instead of listening to the flute-girl and her ‘
1074 Text | people who pass their whole lives together; yet they could
1075 Text | or parents, towards the living or the dead. Wherefore the
1076 Intro| capable of rising to the loftiest heights—of penetrating the
1077 Text | justified in concealing the lofty actions of Socrates when
1078 Intro| Plato is attacking the logical feebleness of the sophists
1079 Intro| wholly subdued; there were longings of a creature~Moving about
1080 Text | as the laws which are the lords of the city say, is justice.
1081 Text | Athens to love and to be loved is held to be a very honourable
1082 Text | whether this is what you lovingly desire, and whether you
1083 Text | praise of Love, and good luck to him. All the company
1084 Text | him; parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness,
1085 Text | was, following him. At the Lyceum he took a bath, and passed
1086 Text | not have such children as Lycurgus left behind him to be the
1087 Text | harmony of the bow and the lyre. Now there is an absurdity
1088 Intro| sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in
1089 Intro| claim here and elsewhere (Lys.), is given by Diotima.~
1090 Intro| expected. The expression ‘poema magis putandum quam comicorum
1091 Text | Socrates, of the courage and magnanimity which you showed when your
1092 Text | proceeded as follows:—~In the magnificent oration which you have just
1093 Text | here, like Eryximachus, I magnify my art), and he is also
1094 Text | of arts are all poets or makers.’ ‘Very true.’ ‘Still,’
1095 Intro| quite possible that the malignity of Greek scandal, aroused
1096 Text | saving. When they reach manhood they are lovers of youth,
1097 Text | full of promise, and was manifested forth in all the splendour
1098 Text | you know, is complex and manifold. All creation or passage
1099 Text | and in his ordinary dress marched better than the other soldiers
1100 Intro| there any Greek writer of mark who condones or approves
1101 Intro| affinities among the elements, marriages of earth and heaven. (Aesch.
1102 Text | presence of mind. Many are the marvels which I might narrate in
1103 Text | the door crowned with a massive garland of ivy and violets,
1104 Text | even the God of War is no match for him; he is the captive
1105 Text | survivor sought another mate, man or woman as we call
1106 Text | inspired, when he comes to maturity desires to beget and generate.
1107 Text | Socrates; and during the meal Agathon several times expressed
1108 Text | discrimination, being such as the meaner sort of men feel, and is
1109 Text | enemy will charge him with meanness or flattery; the actions
1110 | meanwhile
1111 Text | that I must take stronger measures and attack him boldly, and,
1112 Text | conversing with them without meat or drink, if that were possible—
1113 Intro| and the church’); as the mediaeval saint might speak of the ‘
1114 Intro| gymnastic exercises, by the meetings of political clubs, and
1115 Intro| Pythagorean, Eleatic, or Megarian systems, and ‘the old quarrel
1116 Intro| and exhaustive article of Meier in Ersch and Grueber’s Cyclopedia
1117 Text | said, after the manner of Melanippe in Euripides,~‘Not mine
1118 Text | music do so still: for the melodies of Olympus (compare Arist.
1119 Text | disciple of Love. Also the melody of the Muses, the metallurgy
1120 Text | you desire, I am ready to melt you into one and let you
1121 Intro| propose that they should be melted into one and remain one
1122 Text | acknowledge that this meeting and melting into one another, this becoming
1123 Intro| together in a series the memorials of the life of Socrates.~
1124 Intro| profession of ignorance (compare Menex.). Even his knowledge of
1125 Intro| of rhetoricians (compare Menexenus).~The last of the six discourses
1126 Intro| best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded
1127 Text | expedition to Potidaea; there we messed together, and I had the
1128 Text | melody of the Muses, the metallurgy of Hephaestus, the weaving
1129 Text | discovered a way. He said: ‘Methinks I have a plan which will
1130 Text | Plenty, who is the son of Metis or Discretion, was one of
1131 Text | correct performance of airs or metres composed already, which
1132 Text | are made to open in the middle, and have images of gods
1133 Text | felt and fleeces: in the midst of this, Socrates with his
1134 Text | the eldest and noblest and mightiest of the gods; and the chiefest
1135 Intro| clubs, and by the tie of military companionship. They were
1136 Intro| should proceed to beautiful minds, and the beauty of laws
1137 Intro| So naturally does Plato mingle jest and earnest, truth
1138 Text | find their way. For God mingles not with man; but through
1139 Text | Love is to us the lord and minister; and let no one oppose him—
1140 Intro| Xenophon, and the numerous minute references to the Phaedrus
1141 Intro| which may wallow in the mire is capable of rising to
1142 Text | order that we may avoid misconception. For the possessors of these
1143 Text | you rehearsed. But as I misunderstood the nature of the praise
1144 Intro| rapidity. Yet there is a mixture of earnestness in this jest;
1145 Intro| bring back his wife, was mocked with an apparition only,
1146 Intro| at the present time, in modes of salutation. We must not
1147 Text | and you appear to be too modest to speak. Now I feel that
1148 Intro| was a love of virtue and modesty as well as of beauty, the
1149 Text | path, whether the path of money-making or gymnastics or philosophy,
1150 Intro| the way to satirize the monotonous and unmeaning rhythms which
1151 Intro| is done partly to avoid monotony, partly for the sake of
1152 Text | daughter of Pelias, is a monument to all Hellas; for she was
1153 Text | which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like
1154 Text | ones are not in a drinking mood. (I do not include Socrates,
1155 Intro| foulness, she is averted and morose.~But why again does this
1156 Text | still more surprising to us mortals, not only do the sciences
1157 | mostly
1158 Text | Socrates. How can I oppose your motion, who profess to understand
1159 Text | called the navel); he also moulded the breast and took out
1160 Text | the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of
1161 Text | pipes and flutes in their mouths; and they are made to open
1162 Text | they were all round and moved round and round like their
1163 Text | Also the melody of the Muses, the metallurgy of Hephaestus,
1164 Intro| distinct interpretation than a musical composition; and every reader
1165 Text | have been no chaining or mutilation of the gods, or other violence,
1166 Text | physician, rejoined Phaedrus the Myrrhinusian, and the rest of the company,
1167 Intro| dialogue between Socrates and a mysterious woman of foreign extraction.
1168 Intro| them. Yet Plato was not a mystic, nor in any degree affected
1169 Intro| usually so called, but the mystical contemplation of the beautiful
1170 Intro| many) that the so-called mysticism of the East was not strange
1171 Intro| Frag. Dan.) Love became a mythic personage whom philosophy,
1172 Intro| is also described as the mythological, that of Pausanias as the
1173 Text | fellow-worker is rightly named common, as the other love
1174 Intro| hero into connexion with nameless crimes. He is contented
1175 Text | the marvels which I might narrate in praise of Socrates; most
1176 Text | Aristodemus, and had already once narrated to Glaucon. Phaedrus, Pausanias,
1177 Intro| receiving lessons of wisdom. He narrates the failure of his design.
1178 Intro| contradict gives consent to the narrator. We may observe, by the
1179 Text | himself a slave mean and narrow-minded, but drawing towards and
1180 Intro| imputations. But the morals of a nation are not to be judged of
1181 Intro| ourselves and continental nations at the present time, in
1182 Text | circumstances must be the nearest approach to such an union;
1183 Text | Plenty who was the worse for nectar (there was no wine in those
1184 Text | and the good artist is needed. Then the old tale has to
1185 Text | he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I
1186 Text | has this great deity been neglected.’ Now in this Phaedrus seems
1187 Text | into the portico of the neighbouring house. ‘There he is fixed,’
1188 Intro| Here is the beginning of Neoplatonism, or rather, perhaps, a proof (
1189 Text | if I thought that your nerves could be fluttered at a
1190 Text | softness there he dwells; and nestling always with his feet and
1191 Text | Achilles; or you may imagine Nestor and Antenor to have been
1192 Intro| philosophy (compare Arist. Nic. Ethics). So naturally does
1193 Text | fell asleep, and as the nights were long took a good rest:
1194 Intro| Smollett, or France in the nineteenth century. No one supposes
1195 Intro| the flute-girl and her ‘noise’ they shall make speeches
1196 Text | body has a love of such noises and ticklings, for I no
1197 Text | All creation or passage of non-being into being is poetry or
1198 Text | desires something which is non-existent to him, and which as yet
1199 Intro| speak the truth. We may note also the touch of Socratic
1200 Text | both loves ought to be noted as far as may be, for they
1201 Intro| his departure. (5) We may notice the manner in which Socrates
1202 Text | denied by you. And yet, notwithstanding all, he was so superior
1203 Text | and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the
1204 Intro| supposes certain French novels to be a representation of
1205 | nowhere
1206 Text | strength and increased in numbers; this will have the advantage
1207 Text | such thing as a lover’s oath. Such is the entire liberty
1208 Text | Pol.). And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a
1209 Text | for him, but Aristodemus objected; and at last when the feast
1210 Text | most foolish beings are the objects of this love which desires
1211 Text | had the hiccough, and was obliged to change turns with Eryximachus
1212 Intro| mystery’ in which Plato also obscurely intimates the union of the
1213 Intro| Plutarch, Pelop. Vit. It is observable that Plato never in the
1214 Text | they may have escaped the observation of others, but I saw them.
1215 Text | I had the opportunity of observing his extraordinary power
1216 Intro| same questions and to have obtained the same answers from Diotima,
1217 Intro| distinction is a fallacy is obvious; it is almost acknowledged
1218 Text | at present you are better occupied with supper.~Socrates took
1219 Intro| Some general considerations occur to our mind when we begin
1220 Text | tell me when the meeting occurred.~In our boyhood, I replied,
1221 Intro| ranged side by side with odd and even, finite and infinite.~
1222 Text | into stone, as Homer says (Odyssey), and strike me dumb. And
1223 Text | But Orpheus, the son of Oeagrus, the harper, they sent empty
1224 Text | I say without impiety or offence, that of all the blessed
1225 Intro| measure of the prevalence of offences, or as a proof of the general
1226 Text | Agamemnon, who is feasting and offering sacrifices, not the better
1227 Text | of interest, or wish for office or power. He may pray, and
1228 Intro| agree; love is not of the olden time, but present and youthful
1229 Intro| saint, who has won ‘the Olympian victory’ over the temptations
1230 Text | Aristophanes, may now supply the omission or take some other line
1231 Text | great and mighty, or rather omnipotent force of love in general.
1232 Text | I shall have many other opportunities of conversing with Socrates.
1233 Text | the enemy of the gods who opposes him. For if we are friends
1234 Text | understand you,’ I said; ‘the oracle requires an explanation.’ ‘
1235 Text | which is concerned with the ordering of states and families,
1236 Text | mind; for the fluent and orderly enumeration of all your
1237 Text | there is no one to give you orders; hitherto I have never left
1238 Intro| and not among the elder or Orphic deities. In the idea of
1239 Text | them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer
1240 | ours
1241 Text | this? To be sure he is: his outer mask is the carved head
1242 Text | demolishes but literally outrages the proverb. For, after
1243 Intro| influences which afterwards overspread the Alexandrian world. He
1244 Intro| with a short argument which overthrows not only Agathon but all
1245 Intro| approves such connexions. But owing partly to the puzzling nature
1246 Text | over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands
1247 Text | satyr—for his talk is of pack-asses and smiths and cobblers
1248 Text | by another, will be more pained at being detected by his
1249 Text | opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, fears, never remain the
1250 Intro| to follow each other in pairs: Phaedrus and Pausanias
1251 Text | I challenged him to the palaestra; and he wrestled and closed
1252 Text | determine who bears off the palm of wisdom—of this Dionysus
1253 Intro| Socrates describes himself as a pander, and also discourses of
1254 Text | other part, that worst of pangs, more violent in ingenuous
1255 Intro| to part them; as in the parable ‘they grow together unto
1256 Text | his ways might perhaps be paralleled in another man, but his
1257 Text | and attendant. And as his parentage is, so also are his fortunes.
1258 Intro| family or social life and parental influence in Hellenic cities;
1259 Intro| thought, and is capable of partaking of the eternal nature, seems
1260 Intro| admit of degrees, and their partial realization in individuals.~
1261 Text | wisdom, or in some other particular of virtue—such a voluntary
1262 Text | running away headlong. I particularly observed how superior he
1263 Text | the destiny or goddess of parturition who presides at birth, and
1264 Text | manifold. All creation or passage of non-being into being
1265 Intro| one who has overcome his passions; the secret of his power
1266 Intro| abstract, and, by different paths arriving, behold the vision
1267 Text | extempore.~Pausanias came to a pause—this is the balanced way
1268 Text | has ended by making them pay their addresses to him.
1269 Text | his dominion. Any one who pays the least attention to the
1270 Intro| suppose his feelings to be peculiar to himself: there are several
1271 Intro| also extremely confused and pedantic. Plato is attacking the
1272 Text | Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, is a monument to all Hellas;
1273 Intro| anonymously by Plutarch, Pelop. Vit. It is observable that
1274 Intro| days of Epaminondas and Pelopidas, if we may believe writers
1275 Intro| days of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, or of Plato and the
1276 Intro| inflicting upon him the attendant penalty of disease.~There is a similar
1277 Intro| the loftiest heights—of penetrating the inmost secret of philosophy.
1278 Text | When the feast was over, Penia or Poverty, as the manner
1279 Text | what is their own, unless perchance there be some one who calls
1280 Intro| fanciful, partly facetious performances, ‘yet also having a certain
1281 Text | flute-player? That you are, and a performer far more wonderful than
1282 Text | according to the mode of performing them; and when well done
1283 Text | to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things.
1284 Intro| himself (and ‘at lovers’ perjuries they say Jove laughs’);
1285 Text | of these things are of a permanent or lasting nature; not to
1286 Intro| of virtue and wisdom is permitted among us; and when these
1287 Text | that when he saw their perplexity he said: ‘Do you desire
1288 Intro| corrupted in the days of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars,
1289 Intro| barbarians, such as the Celts and Persians, there is no trace of such
1290 Intro| Dan.) Love became a mythic personage whom philosophy, borrowing
1291 Intro| and beauty or retains his personality. Enough for him to have
1292 Text | persuaded of them, I try to persuade others, that in the attainment
1293 Intro| which is the bad love, and persuades the body to accept the good
1294 Intro| recognises one law of love which pervades them both. There are loves
1295 Intro| unintelligible to us and perverted as they appear, affords
1296 Text | injurious, being the source of pestilence, and bringing many other
1297 Text | said: Apollodorus, O thou Phalerian (Probably a play of words
1298 Text | coming from my own home at Phalerum to the city, and one of
1299 Intro| that love is a universal phenomenon and the great power of nature;
1300 Text | supper. Phoenix, the son of Philip, told another person who
1301 Intro| including the tragedians, philosophers, and, with the exception
1302 Intro| emancipated from former philosophies. The genius of Greek art
1303 Text | sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide
1304 Intro| Socrates, and agrees with the picture given of him in the first
1305 Text | the proverb. For, after picturing Agamemnon as the most valiant
1306 Intro| that which he has. This piece of dialectics is ascribed
1307 Text | promises that if we are pious, he will restore us to our
1308 Text | statuaries’ shops, holding pipes and flutes in their mouths;
1309 Intro| Agathon and Socrates. Socrates piques Alcibiades by a pretended
1310 Intro| them in a walk from the Piraeus to Athens. Although he had
1311 Text | notes of higher or lower pitch which disagreed once, but
1312 Intro| crown with a garland. He is placed on a couch at his side,
1313 Text | think that his intention in placing himself between you and
1314 Text | before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten
1315 Text | I thought that I must be plain with him and have no more
1316 Text | power of his breath, and the players of his music do so still:
1317 Intro| Protag.). Of course, he is ‘playing both sides of the game,’
1318 Text | not like the trouble of pleading their suit. In Ionia and
1319 Text | with a stream of wisdom plenteous and fair; whereas my own
1320 Text | to love Agathon. But the plot of this Satyric or Silenic
1321 Text | straitened circumstances, plotted to have a child by him,
1322 Text | resembles, he is always plotting against the fair and good;
1323 Intro| tragic poet and a sort of poem, like tragedy, moving among
1324 Intro| expected. The expression ‘poema magis putandum quam comicorum
1325 Text | whereas other gods have poems and hymns made in their
1326 Intro| putandum quam comicorum poetarum,’ which has been applied
1327 Intro| them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical,
1328 Text | in spirit (compare Arist. Politics), and that there should
1329 Text | unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the
1330 Text | our wounds to heal (from Pope’s Homer, Il.)’~shall prescribe
1331 Intro| of Zeus and Dione, who is popular and common. The first of
1332 Text | his presence the love of popularity gets the better of me. And
1333 Text | the gods, at which the god Poros or Plenty, who is the son
1334 Text | said Alcibiades, for by Poseidon, there is no one else whom
1335 Text | had not been always their position, and they sowed the seed
1336 Intro| fascinated by Socrates, and possessed of a genius which might
1337 Text | And what does he gain who possesses the good?’ ‘Happiness,’
1338 Text | either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms?
1339 Text | the effect of yesterday’s potations, and must have time to recover;
1340 Text | loving friends, is a skilful practitioner. Now the most hostile are
1341 Text | and then try to hymn the praiseworthy one in a manner worthy of
1342 Text | office or power. He may pray, and entreat, and supplicate,
1343 Text | of light he offered up a prayer to the sun, and went his
1344 Intro| only Agathon but all the preceding speakers by the help of
1345 Text | have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better
1346 Text | most of you are in the same predicament, for you were of the party
1347 Intro| or a section of it, is predisposed to think evil. And it is
1348 Text | take his admissions as the premisses of my discourse.~I grant
1349 Intro| dithyrambs. It is at once a preparation for Socrates and a foil
1350 Intro| they are all designed to prepare the way for Socrates, who
1351 Intro| to Glaucon, and is quite prepared to have another rehearsal
1352 Intro| ready to do both, and after prescribing for the hiccough, speaks
1353 Text | they sent empty away, and presented to him an apparition only
1354 Text | only a dark and doubtful presentiment. Suppose Hephaestus, with
1355 Intro| others. The Phaedo also presents some points of comparison
1356 Text | concerned only with the preservation of the good and the cure
1357 Text | become temperate, and of preserving their love; and again, of
1358 Text | goddess of parturition who presides at birth, and therefore,
1359 Text | matters of love; nor, I presume, will Agathon and Pausanias;
1360 Text | true, and that this being presupposed, out of the true the speaker
1361 Intro| philosophy, he characteristically pretends to have derived not from
1362 Text | would be equally ready to prevent him, but now there is no
1363 Text | of his eyes; he was thus prevented from seeing Socrates, who
1364 Intro| of the idea, which he has previously communicated to Eryximachus,
1365 Text | arts of the prophet and the priest, their sacrifices and mysteries
1366 Text | alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder
1367 Intro| alluding playfully to a serious problem of Greek philosophy (compare
1368 Text | is undergoing a perpetual process of loss and reparation—hair,
1369 Text | poetry or making, and the processes of all art are creative;
1370 Text | they are divine. But you produce the same effect with your
1371 Text | bodies of all animals and in productions of the earth, and I may
1372 Text | the attendants and other profane and unmannered persons close
1373 Text | oppose your motion, who profess to understand nothing but
1374 Text | let you off.~Aristophanes professed to open another vein of
1375 Intro| maintaining his accustomed profession of ignorance (compare Menex.).
1376 Intro| physicist, and, like many professors of his art in modern times,
1377 Text | basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half
1378 Text | pleasure, to say nothing of the profit. But when I hear another
1379 Text | advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright
1380 Intro| first step in his upward progress (Symp.) by the beauty of
1381 Text | not to be discouraged, and promised to remain with them; and
1382 Text | yesterday, fearing a crowd, but promising that I would come to-day
1383 Text | unwedded; and such a nature is prone to love and ready to return
1384 Text | bodies—conceive that which is proper for the soul to conceive
1385 Intro| individuals.~But Diotima, the prophetess of Mantineia, whose sacred
1386 Text | the conceiving power is propitious, and diffusive, and benign,
1387 Text | right, my dear Agathon, in proposing to speak of the nature of
1388 Intro| raises her above the ordinary proprieties of women, has taught Socrates
1389 Text | memorial; neither poet nor prose-writer has ever affirmed that he
1390 Text | attractions of my youth. In the prosecution of this design, when I next
1391 Text | who are within (compare Prot.). To-day let us have conversation
1392 Text | manner. And I felt quite proud, thinking that I knew the
1393 Text | you are a bully, as I can prove by witnesses, if you will
1394 Text | would have both of them proven well and truly, and would
1395 Text | them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must
1396 Text | sacrifices and the whole province of divination, which is
1397 Text | gave a turn to the face and pulled the skin from the sides
1398 Intro| have been composed by a pupil of Lysias or of Prodicus,
1399 Intro| rhetoricians, through their pupils, not forgetting by the way
1400 Intro| but of the highest and purest abstraction. This abstraction
1401 Intro| being of love he will be purified of earthly leaven, and will
1402 Text | called the belly, like the purses which draw in, and he made
1403 Text | The second time, still in pursuance of my design, after we had
1404 Text | touched in war; those only are pursued who are running away headlong.
1405 Text | virtue and the nature and pursuits of a good man; and he tries
1406 Intro| expression ‘poema magis putandum quam comicorum poetarum,’
1407 Text | the appearance which he puts on. Is he not like a Silenus
1408 Intro| But owing partly to the puzzling nature of the subject these
1409 Text | the possessors of these qualities, Agathon, must be supposed
1410 Intro| expression ‘poema magis putandum quam comicorum poetarum,’ which
1411 Text | vessel holding more than two quarts—this he filled and emptied,
1412 Intro| divided between the desire of quelling the pride of man and the
1413 Text | own is of a very mean and questionable sort, no better than a dream.
1414 Text | the wise woman when she questioned me: I think that this will
1415 Intro| and proposes to begin by questioning Agathon. The result of his
1416 Text | insolent and will not be quiet, I will split them again
1417 Text | madman; for you are always raging against yourself and everybody
1418 Intro| mankind everywhere.~Some raillery ensues first between Aristophanes
1419 Text | Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.
1420 Intro| consideration not worth raising.~The Symposium is connected
1421 Text | drawn to him, and the rumour ran through the wondering crowd
1422 Intro| opposites male and female were ranged side by side with odd and
1423 Text | partly on account of my rank, and I told them so, (this,
1424 Intro| in all, with incredible rapidity. Yet there is a mixture
1425 Text | you must see in me some rare beauty of a kind infinitely
1426 Intro| speaker and enchanter who ravishes the souls of men; the convincer
1427 Intro| their faces a twist and re-arrange their persons, taking out
1428 Intro| musical composition; and every reader may form his own accompaniment
1429 Text | with the fair; and now how readily has he invented a specious
1430 Text | not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of
1431 Intro| degrees, and their partial realization in individuals.~But Diotima,
1432 Intro| whelp, who ought not to be reared in the city,’ yet not without
1433 Intro| such attachments may be reasonably attributed to the inferiority
1434 Intro| who aspired only to see reasoned truth, and whose thoughts
1435 Intro| speech of Phaedrus, which recalls the first speech in imitation
1436 Text | now, said Socrates, let us recapitulate the argument. First, is
1437 Intro| wonderful opportunity of receiving lessons of wisdom. He narrates
1438 Text | crowned Socrates, and again reclined.~Then he said: You seem,
1439 Text | intelligent nature; any one may recognise the pure enthusiasts in
1440 Intro| moral to the physical; or recognises one law of love which pervades
1441 Text | foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in every
1442 Intro| so glaring and which was recognized by the Greeks of a later
1443 Intro| his side, but suddenly, on recognizing Socrates, he starts up,
1444 Intro| for her husband, and in recompense of her virtue was allowed
1445 Intro| has at least a superficial reconcilement. (Rep.)~An unknown person
1446 Intro| love is the mediator and reconciler of poor, divided human nature:
1447 Intro| and reject the bad, and reconciles conflicting elements and
1448 Intro| which are given by Zeus for reconstructing the frame of man, or by
1449 Text | potations, and must have time to recover; and I suspect that most
1450 Intro| modern times, attempts to reduce the moral to the physical;
1451 Intro| compare Protag.), for my words refer to all mankind everywhere.~
1452 Intro| and the numerous minute references to the Phaedrus and Symposium,
1453 Intro| that Plato is specially referring to them. As Eryximachus
1454 Intro| Polyhymnia:’ and he often refers to this (e.g. in the Symposium)
1455 Intro| our mind when we begin to reflect on this subject. (1) That
1456 Text | without amazement? When I reflected on the immeasurable inferiority
1457 Text | rebuke them—any one who reflects on all this will, on the
1458 Text | and not without a pang refrains from conception. And this
1459 Text | his sacrifice of victory I refused yesterday, fearing a crowd,
1460 Text | for Socrates is easily refuted.~And now, taking my leave
1461 Text | fondness, softness, grace; regardful of the good, regardless
1462 Text | regardful of the good, regardless of the evil: in every word,
1463 Intro| from one to the other by a regular series of steps or stages,
1464 Text | is a great matter so to regulate the desires of the epicure
1465 Text | my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard
1466 Text | hymn of praise have you rehearsed. But as I misunderstood
1467 Intro| body to accept the good and reject the bad, and reconciles
1468 Text | my feelings, after this rejection, at the thought of my own
1469 Text | all at that,—wonderful to relate! no human being had ever
1470 Intro| beaming upon mankind, the relativity of ideas to the human mind,
1471 Intro| a nose and face in basso relievo. Wherefore let us exhort
1472 Intro| It is likely that every religion in the world has used words
1473 Text | working by a knowledge of the religious or irreligious tendencies
1474 Text | two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could
1475 Intro| the worst, but it may be remarked that this very excess of
1476 Intro| comes next. He begins by remarking satirically that he has
1477 Text | the chief thing which he remembered was Socrates compelling
1478 Text | I thought most worthy of remembrance, and what the chief speakers
1479 Text | possibility of escape. For I was reminded of Gorgias, and at the end
1480 Intro| repressed by Phaedrus, who reminds the disputants of their
1481 Text | find any likeness, however remote, either among men who now
1482 Text | Apollodorus; but let me renew my request that you would
1483 Text | not be angry with him or renounce his company, any more than
1484 Text | perpetual process of loss and reparation—hair, flesh, bones, blood,
1485 Text | DIALOGUE: Apollodorus, who repeats to his companion the dialogue
1486 Text | what I have—to him we shall reply: ‘You, my friend, having
1487 Text | would find no difficulty in replying, of a son or daughter: and
1488 Text | if not you, should be the reporter of the words of your friend?
1489 Text | and the satyrs; and they represent in a figure not only himself,
1490 Intro| certain French novels to be a representation of ordinary French life.
1491 Intro| different reasons, trust the representations either of Comedy or Satire;
1492 Intro| crimes. He is contented with representing him as a saint, who has
1493 Intro| argument. This is speedily repressed by Phaedrus, who reminds
1494 Intro| no less than for moral reprobation (compare Plato’s Symp.).
1495 Text | elders refuse to silence the reprovers and do not rebuke them—any
1496 Intro| Nor does Plato feel any repugnance, such as would be felt in
1497 Intro| have become distasteful or repugnant to another. We cannot, though
1498 Text | of youths share the evil repute in which philosophy and
1499 Intro| between them, which Agathon is requested to appease. Alcibiades then
1500 Text | you,’ I said; ‘the oracle requires an explanation.’ ‘I will
1501 Text | would not leave me, but he rescued me and my arms; and he ought
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