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1502 Text | satyr. Aye, and there is a resemblance in other points too. For
1503 Text | many years Agathon has not resided at Athens; and not three
1504 Intro| divine image of beauty which resides within Socrates has been
1505 Text | what temperance there is residing within! Know you that beauty
1506 Text | likely to meet with a stout resistance; and in this way he and
1507 Text | appeared we had passed a resolution that each one of us in turn
1508 Text | something which he could not resolve; he would not give it up,
1509 Intro| them, may be none the less resolved that the natural and healthy
1510 Text | the voice of Alcibiades resounding in the court; he was in
1511 Text | up and decay, so that in respect of them we are never the
1512 Text | be supposed to have their respective advantages at the time,
1513 Intro| renewed at the destruction or restoration of the city, rather than
1514 Text | if we are pious, he will restore us to our original state,
1515 Intro| youthful work. As Mantinea was restored in the year 369, the composition
1516 Text | sort of lovers ought to be restrained by force; as we restrain
1517 Intro| adopted in this translation rests on no other principle than
1518 Intro| sea of light and beauty or retains his personality. Enough
1519 Text | danger. He and Laches were retreating, for the troops were in
1520 Text | which is implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making
1521 Intro| of a wide application and reveals a deep insight into the
1522 Text | that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears
1523 Intro| inspired’ with Bacchanalian revelry, which, like his philosophy,
1524 Text | Nevertheless he gave his life to revenge his friend, and dared to
1525 Text | is Solon, too, who is the revered father of Athenian laws;
1526 Text | accepting and honouring and reverencing the harmonious love in all
1527 Text | assure you that the very reverse is the fact, and that if
1528 Text | know in relation to the revolutions of the heavenly bodies and
1529 Text | Very different was the reward of the true love of Achilles
1530 Intro| the god. All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than
1531 Text | I perceive that you are rid of the hiccough.~Yes, said
1532 Text | unassailed by the shafts of your ridicule, in order that each may
1533 Intro| always condemned as well as ridiculed by the Comic poets; and
1534 Intro| hungering and thirsting after righteousness; or of divine loves under
1535 Intro| something of a sophistical ring in the speech of Phaedrus,
1536 Text | They are ready to run all risks greater far than they would
1537 Intro| used words or practised rites in one age, which have become
1538 Text | tale over again; is not the road to Athens just made for
1539 Text | of intoxication, and kept roaring and shouting ‘Where is Agathon?
1540 Text | pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great
1541 Intro| Epaminondas: several of the Roman emperors were assailed by
1542 Intro| inspiring the modern feeling of romance in the Greek mind. The passion
1543 Intro| civilization. Among the Romans, and also among barbarians,
1544 Text | having laid them to sleep, rose to depart; Aristodemus,
1545 Text | many imagine him; and he is rough and squalid, and has no
1546 Text | the gods, for they were ruled by Necessity; but now since
1547 Text | tyranny; for the interests of rulers require that their subjects
1548 Intro| encouraging male loves; (7) the ruling passion of Socrates for
1549 Text | was drawn to him, and the rumour ran through the wondering
1550 Intro| prophetess of Mantineia, whose sacred and superhuman character
1551 Intro| of Agathon, who had been sacrificing in thanksgiving for his
1552 Intro| prophet or other Eastern sage, but has now become an imagination
1553 Text | in which the utility of salt has been made the theme
1554 Intro| either the destruction or salvation of Athens. The dramatic
1555 Intro| comes and goes. There is no sameness of existence, but the new
1556 Text | fresh from the bath and sandalled; and as the sight of the
1557 Intro| representations either of Comedy or Satire; and still less of Christian
1558 Intro| of the god Love; (6) the satirical character of them, shown
1559 Intro| He begins by remarking satirically that he has not understood
1560 Intro| forgetting by the way to satirize the monotonous and unmeaning
1561 Intro| Agathon, who in later life is satirized by Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazusae,
1562 Text | Agathon. But the plot of this Satyric or Silenic drama has been
1563 Text | suggested of Silenus and the satyrs; and they represent in a
1564 Text | Alcestis would have died to save Admetus, or Achilles to
1565 Text | of the truth of what I am saving. When they reach manhood
1566 Text | left behind him to be the saviours, not only of Lacedaemon,
1567 Text | thou stranger woman, thou sayest well; but, assuming Love
1568 Intro| that the malignity of Greek scandal, aroused by some personal
1569 Text | the place of flowers and scents, there he sits and abides.
1570 Intro| more than we should to a schoolmaster, in the expectation that
1571 Intro| irrational manner of the schools of the day, characteristically
1572 Intro| that of Eryximachus as the scientific, that of Aristophanes as
1573 Text | only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we
1574 Text | love and tend him, and will search out and bring to the birth
1575 Text | broad-bosomed Earth, The everlasting seat of all that is, And Love.’~
1576 Intro| attributed to the inferiority and seclusion of woman, and the want of
1577 Text | and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly
1578 Text | we call them,—being the sections of entire men or women,—
1579 Text | unable to rise above the seductions of them. For none of these
1580 Text | god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is
1581 Intro| which admit of degrees can seldom be rightly estimated, because
1582 Intro| lies in his passionate but self-controlled nature. In the Phaedrus
1583 Text | of dying from hunger and self-neglect, because they did not like
1584 Text | his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness. I never imagined
1585 Text | that is to say, to the self-seeking of the governors and the
1586 Text | times expressed a wish to send for him, but Aristodemus
1587 Text | and you will wonder at the senselessness of their ways, unless you
1588 Intro| difference between sensual and sentimental love, likewise offers several
1589 Intro| shall not degenerate into sentimentalism or effeminacy. The possibility
1590 Intro| was not an enthusiast or a sentimentalist, but one who aspired only
1591 Text | Now I fancied that he was seriously enamoured of my beauty,
1592 Intro| abstraction occurring when he was serving with the army at Potidaea;
1593 Text | feet are tender, for she sets her steps, Not on the ground
1594 Text | surprising. There was a severe frost, for the winter in
1595 Intro| the world are not easily severed from the sensual desires,
1596 Text | can assure you that I feel severely the effect of yesterday’
1597 Text | leave unassailed by the shafts of your ridicule, in order
1598 Text | ambiguity. So I gave him a shake, and I said: ‘Socrates,
1599 Text | fancied that Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian or Gorgonian
1600 Text | indeed assert that they are shameless, but this is not true; for
1601 Text | of clothes, and were well shod, and had their feet swathed
1602 Text | the wrinkles, much as a shoemaker might smooth leather upon
1603 Text | by them.~Do you expect to shoot your bolt and escape, Aristophanes?
1604 Text | set up in the statuaries’ shops, holding pipes and flutes
1605 Text | of wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong,
1606 Text | intoxication, and kept roaring and shouting ‘Where is Agathon? Lead
1607 Text | pain, and turns away, and shrivels up, and not without a pang
1608 Text | conscious that if I did not shut my ears against him, and
1609 Intro| that ‘philosophy is home sickness.’ When Agathon says that
1610 Text | plot of this Satyric or Silenic drama has been detected,
1611 Intro| man, with the exception of Simmias the Theban (Phaedrus); of
1612 Intro| Athenaeus; Lysias contra Simonem; Aesch. c. Timarchum.)~The
1613 Text | to be praised. For in my simplicity I imagined that the topics
1614 Intro| lover he may be allowed to sing the praises of Socrates:—~
1615 Text | into being. Also Parmenides sings of Generation:~‘First in
1616 Text | enumeration of all your singularities is not a task which is easy
1617 Text | of a most wise and worthy sire!~The same to you, said Eryximachus;
1618 Text | as from the voice of the siren, my fate would be like that
1619 Text | That is, of a brother or sister?~Yes, he said.~And now,
1620 Text | flowers and scents, there he sits and abides. Concerning the
1621 Text | found in any disgraceful situation, has the same feeling about
1622 Intro| Menexenus).~The last of the six discourses begins with a
1623 Intro| and also with the slight sketch of him in the Protagoras.
1624 Text | them loving friends, is a skilful practitioner. Now the most
1625 Text | Alcibiades.~‘The wise physician skilled our wounds to heal (from
1626 Intro| up the threads anew, and skims the highest points of each
1627 Text | at the door, and endure a slavery worse than that of any slave—
1628 Intro| in a great household of slaves.~It is difficult to adduce
1629 Text | at the thought of my own slavish state. But this Marsyas
1630 Text | age, if he abstained from slaying Hector. Nevertheless he
1631 Text | was no one but ourselves sleeping in the apartment. All this
1632 Intro| the follower of Socrates, sleeps during the whole of a long
1633 Text | brought out their mats and slept in the open air that they
1634 Text | while they are young, being slices of the original man, they
1635 Intro| name, and also with the slight sketch of him in the Protagoras.
1636 Text | Socrates,’ she said with a smile, ‘can Love be acknowledged
1637 Text | talk is of pack-asses and smiths and cobblers and curriers,
1638 Intro| the time of Fielding and Smollett, or France in the nineteenth
1639 Text | much as a shoemaker might smooth leather upon a last; he
1640 Intro| want of a real family or social life and parental influence
1641 Intro| may note also the touch of Socratic irony, (8) which admits
1642 Text | marched better than the other soldiers who had shoes, and they
1643 Text | he was so superior to my solicitations, so contemptuous and derisive
1644 Text | as one may say? There is Solon, too, who is the revered
1645 | sometimes
1646 Intro| their accompaniments of song and metre, then the discord
1647 Text | either in the composition of songs or in the correct performance
1648 Intro| mythology, and of the manner of sophistry adhering—rhetoric and poetry,
1649 Text | and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling,
1650 Text | terrible as an enchanter, sorcerer, sophist. He is by nature
1651 Text | that I should be much more sorry than glad, if he were to
1652 Text | as of revellers, and the sound of a flute-girl was heard.
1653 Text | their position, and they sowed the seed no longer as hitherto
1654 Intro| and having no limit of space or time: this is the highest
1655 Intro| twice as many sacrifices. He spake, and split them as you might
1656 Text | he is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides
1657 Intro| Polyhymnia, who must be indulged sparingly, just as in my own art of
1658 Text | attribute to Love every species of greatness and glory,
1659 Text | readily has he invented a specious reason for attracting Agathon
1660 Intro| lover of wisdom is the ‘spectator of all time and of all existence.’
1661 Intro| begin an argument. This is speedily repressed by Phaedrus, who
1662 Text | strait.~You want to cast a spell over me, Socrates, said
1663 Text | for their children, and to spend money and undergo any sort
1664 Intro| may even be regarded as a spiritualized form of them. We may observe
1665 Text | wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises;
1666 Text | manifested forth in all the splendour of youth the day before
1667 Text | of revellers entered, and spoiled the order of the banquet.
1668 Text | generous friendship ever sprang from them. There remains,
1669 Text | Love of the beautiful, has sprung every good in heaven and
1670 Text | inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing
1671 Intro| revellers and a flute-girl, staggers in, and being drunk is able
1672 Text | and see whether he would stand all night. There he stood
1673 Text | crowd that Socrates had been standing and thinking about something
1674 Intro| of both, and is full and starved by turns. Like his mother
1675 Text | which are set up in the statuaries’ shops, holding pipes and
1676 Intro| having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while the companion Dialogue
1677 Intro| he is alone; Socrates has stayed behind in a fit of abstraction,
1678 Text | could not be wounded by steel, much less he by money;
1679 Intro| incited to take the first step in his upward progress (
1680 Text | before (A fragment of the Sthenoaoea of Euripides.); this also
1681 Text | calms the stormy deep, Who stills the winds and bids the sufferer
1682 Intro| excess of evil has been the stimulus to good (compare Plato,
1683 Text | have felt the serpent’s sting; and he who has suffered,
1684 Text | call to him he will not stir.’~How strange, said Agathon;
1685 Text | turn me and my speech into stone, as Homer says (Odyssey),
1686 | stop
1687 Text | informant; he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself
1688 Text | peace on earth and calms the stormy deep, Who stills the winds
1689 Text | be likely to meet with a stout resistance; and in this
1690 Text | eloquence, they are very straightforward; the law is simply in favour
1691 Text | Poverty considering her own straitened circumstances, plotted to
1692 Text | she made them seem to be strangers in blood to their own son,
1693 Text | character in them; and, what is strangest of all, he only may swear
1694 Text | have filled me full with a stream of wisdom plenteous and
1695 Intro| harmony of opposites: but in strictness he should rather have spoken
1696 Intro| both. There are loves and strifes of the body as well as of
1697 Text | Homer says (Odyssey), and strike me dumb. And then I perceived
1698 Text | ready to battle against the strongest even to the uttermost, and
1699 Text | discourse? I am especially struck with the beauty of the concluding
1700 Intro| years past has made a daily study of the actions of Socrates—
1701 Intro| affections was not wholly subdued; there were longings of
1702 Text | any dishonourable act, or submitting through cowardice when any
1703 Text | absolutely the same, but by substitution, the old worn-out mortality
1704 Text | happiness is only the great and subtle power of love; but they
1705 Intro| and the serious, are so subtly intermingled in it, and
1706 Text | I fancied that I might succeed in this manner. Not a bit;
1707 Text | stills the winds and bids the sufferer sleep.’~This is he who empties
1708 Intro| by the beloved doing or suffering any cowardly or mean act.
1709 Text | hearing,~‘Of the doings and sufferings of the enduring man’~while
1710 Intro| Aristodemus by himself is a sufficient indication to Agathon that
1711 Text | she said, ‘the answer suggests a further question: What
1712 Text | trouble of pleading their suit. In Ionia and other places,
1713 Intro| juxtaposition, as if by accident. A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes
1714 Text | was not in winter but in summer), brought out their mats
1715 Text | and after a hymn had been sung to the god, and there had
1716 Intro| Agathon elevates the soul to ‘sunlit heights,’ but at the same
1717 Intro| philosophy’ has at least a superficial reconcilement. (Rep.)~An
1718 Intro| Mantineia, whose sacred and superhuman character raises her above
1719 Intro| or any of the guests, the superiority which he gains over Agathon
1720 Text | may pray, and entreat, and supplicate, and swear, and lie on a
1721 Text | being cut off from our supplies, we were compelled to go
1722 Intro| nineteenth century. No one supposes certain French novels to
1723 Intro| there is no impossibility in supposing that ‘one king, or son of
1724 Intro| the contemplation of that supreme being of love he will be
1725 Intro| himself. We are still more surprised to find that the philosopher
1726 Text | a man is frightened into surrender by the loss of them, or,
1727 Text | halves died and the other survived, the survivor sought another
1728 Text | their virtues, which still survives among us, would be immortal?
1729 Text | the other survived, the survivor sought another mate, man
1730 Intro| points of comparison. But the suspicion which hangs over other writings
1731 Text | his extraordinary power of sustaining fatigue. His endurance was
1732 Text | shod, and had their feet swathed in felt and fleeces: in
1733 Text | footsteps let every man follow, sweetly singing in his honour and
1734 Text | violence, but peace and sweetness, as there is now in heaven,
1735 Text | age, who is swift enough, swifter truly than most of us like:—
1736 Intro| Terrible was their strength and swiftness; and they were essaying
1737 Text | hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the
1738 Text | proof of his flexibility and symmetry of form is his grace, which
1739 Intro| Phaedr., Protag.; and compare Sympos. with Phaedr.). We may also
1740 Intro| Pythagorean, Eleatic, or Megarian systems, and ‘the old quarrel of
1741 Intro| to us, are free from the taint of indecency.~Some general
1742 Intro| not. But Socrates has no talent for speaking anything but
1743 Text | conversation? And so we walked, and talked of the discourses on love;
1744 Text | and that we shall be like tallies. Wherefore let us exhort
1745 Text | that he may gratify his tastes without the attendant evil
1746 Text | conscious that I want a teacher; tell me then the cause
1747 Intro| combinations of the two elements in teachers or statesmen great good
1748 Text | rest of the world what I am teaching you. In the first place,
1749 Text | therefore I hold my ears and tear myself away from him. And
1750 Text | reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them. And I
1751 Text | conception arrives, and the teeming nature is full, there is
1752 Text | and equals cast in their teeth anything of the sort which
1753 Intro| innocent in themselves in a few temperaments they are liable to degenerate
1754 Text | the soul, whose habits, tempers, opinions, desires, pleasures,
1755 Intro| Olympian victory’ over the temptations of human nature. The fault
1756 Text | plague, delayed the disease ten years. She was my instructress
1757 Text | will be content to love and tend him, and will search out
1758 Text | things? Of a truth he is the tenderest as well as the youngest,
1759 Text | and in company with him tends that which he brings forth;
1760 Text | is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second
1761 Intro| he has not understood the terms of the original agreement,
1762 Text | because time is the true test of this as of most other
1763 Text | pursue, and others to fly; testing both the lover and beloved
1764 Intro| He starts from a noble text: ‘That without the sense
1765 Intro| had been sacrificing in thanksgiving for his tragic victory on
1766 Intro| exception of Simmias the Theban (Phaedrus); of Aristophanes,
1767 Intro| Achilles, are the chief themes of his discourse. The love
1768 Intro| Athenaeus on the authority of Theopompus). (5) A small matter: there
1769 | thereby
1770 | Thereupon
1771 Intro| satirized by Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazusae, for his effeminate manners
1772 Intro| poor, divided human nature: thirdly, that the loves of this
1773 Intro| might speak of hungering and thirsting after righteousness; or
1774 Text | simply to drink as if we were thirsty?~Alcibiades replied: Hail,
1775 Text | the presence of more than thirty thousand Hellenes.~You are
1776 Text | and vanities of human life—thither looking, and holding converse
1777 Text | about him crept under his threadbare cloak, as the time of year
1778 Intro| Socrates, who gathers up the threads anew, and skims the highest
1779 Intro| other writings of Plato, throw a doubt on the genuineness
1780 Text | noble enthusiasm may be thrown away upon them; in this
1781 Intro| few questions, and then he throws his argument into the form
1782 Text | annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants,
1783 Text | and if it still continues, tickle your nose with something
1784 Text | love of such noises and ticklings, for I no sooner applied
1785 Intro| contra Simonem; Aesch. c. Timarchum.)~The character of Alcibiades
1786 Intro| opinions coloured with a tinge of philosophy. They furnish
1787 Intro| may therefore have no more title to be regarded as genuine
1788 Text | and undergo any sort of toil, and even to die, for the
1789 Text | cause of all our former toils)—a nature which in the first
1790 Text | says to me in an indignant tone:—‘What a strange thing it
1791 Text | said Socrates.~Hold your tongue, said Alcibiades, for by
1792 Text | and will let themselves be tormented with hunger or suffer anything
1793 | toward
1794 Intro| efficient cause of creation. The traces of the existence of love,
1795 Text | that of you rich men and traders, such conversation displeases
1796 Text | Parmenides spoke, if the tradition of them be true, were done
1797 Intro| Eryximachus to be also true to the traditional recollection of them (compare
1798 Intro| seems to triumph over the traditions of Pythagorean, Eleatic,
1799 Intro| Homer and including the tragedians, philosophers, and, with
1800 Intro| the story of the fit or trance of Socrates is confirmed
1801 Text | that of others,—he would transfix me, and I should grow old
1802 Text | the gods will forgive his transgression, for there is no such thing
1803 Intro| has been adopted in this translation rests on no other principle
1804 Intro| in the Republic he would transpose the virtues and the mathematical
1805 Intro| but a lame ending.’~Plato transposes the two next speeches, as
1806 Text | one another; and after the transposition the male generated in the
1807 Text | alleviation of the pain of travail. For love, Socrates, is
1808 Intro| discourse, in which he begins by treating of the origin of human nature.
1809 Text | in that region is really tremendous, and everybody else either
1810 Text | beloved in contests and trials, until they show to which
1811 Text | Alcibiades, that this ingenious trick of mine will have no effect
1812 Intro| play all sorts of fantastic tricks; he may swear and forswear
1813 Text | pursuits of a good man; and he tries to educate him; and at the
1814 Text | that personal beauty is a trifle; and after laws and institutions
1815 Intro| genius of Greek art seems to triumph over the traditions of Pythagorean,
1816 Text | were retreating, for the troops were in flight, and I met
1817 Text | the lovers do not like the trouble of pleading their suit.
1818 Intro| though for different reasons, trust the representations either
1819 Intro| outward mask of the divinest truths.~When Alcibiades has done
1820 Text | feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with
1821 Intro| before Christ. The first tumult of the affections was not
1822 Text | and place them under a tutor’s care, who is appointed
1823 Intro| Apollo to give their faces a twist and re-arrange their persons,
1824 Intro| are not troubled with the twofold love; but when they are
1825 Intro| taking out the wrinkles and tying the skin in a knot about
1826 Text | because they are inimical to tyranny; for the interests of rulers
1827 Text | inspire, as our Athenian tyrants learned by experience; for
1828 Text | bears fruit: at the sight of ugliness she frowns and contracts
1829 Text | mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions
1830 Text | say you to going with me unasked?~I will do as you bid me,
1831 Text | I must beg you to leave unassailed by the shafts of your ridicule,
1832 Text | because their future is uncertain; they may turn out good
1833 Intro| included, consciously or unconsciously, in Plato’s doctrine of
1834 Text | and to spend money and undergo any sort of toil, and even
1835 Text | life and identity, he is undergoing a perpetual process of loss
1836 Text | carried on. The wisdom which understands this is spiritual; all other
1837 Text | Harmodius had a strength which undid their power. And, therefore,
1838 Text | out of every soul of man undiscovered. And a proof of his flexibility
1839 Text | vast theatre altogether undismayed, if I thought that your
1840 Text | replied, ‘I will attempt to unfold: of his nature and birth
1841 Text | praising the god Love, or unfolding his nature, appear to have
1842 Text | manner the attribute of Love; ungrace and love are always at war
1843 Text | return, whom you regard as an unhappy creature, and very probably
1844 Intro| represented as originally unimpassioned, but as one who has overcome
1845 Intro| affections towards Socrates, unintelligible to us and perverted as they
1846 Intro| Aristodemus’ behalf for coming uninvited; (3) how the story of the
1847 Text | implants, making love and unison to grow up among them; and
1848 Intro| the lovers may lawfully unite. Nor is there any disgrace
1849 Text | form is his grace, which is universally admitted to be in an especial
1850 Text | kindness ever and never gives unkindness; the friend of the good,
1851 Intro| reconcilement. (Rep.)~An unknown person who had heard of
1852 Text | another man, but his absolute unlikeness to any human being that
1853 Text | attendants and other profane and unmannered persons close up the doors
1854 Intro| have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which
1855 Intro| satirize the monotonous and unmeaning rhythms which Prodicus and
1856 Text | suffer their insolence to be unrestrained. At last, after a good deal
1857 Text | Aristophanes, laughing. I will unsay my words; but do you please
1858 Text | thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the
1859 Text | coming out at all sorts of unsuspected places: and now, what have
1860 | unto
1861 Intro| Such an union is not wholly untrue to human nature, which is
1862 Text | sight of the sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he
1863 Text | to live with one another unwedded; and such a nature is prone
1864 Intro| the object of his love is unworthy: for nothing can be nobler
1865 Intro| Hence he is naturally the upholder of male loves, which, like
1866 Text | wanton love, getting the upper hand and affecting the seasons
1867 Intro| take the first step in his upward progress (Symp.) by the
1868 Intro| Diotima, who has already urged upon Socrates the argument
1869 Intro| Socrates the argument which he urges against Agathon. That the
1870 | using
1871 Text | philosophical work in which the utility of salt has been made the
1872 Text | attain. But I will do my utmost to inform you, and do you
1873 Text | account with him, and are utterly despised by him: he regards
1874 Text | the strongest even to the uttermost, and to die for them, and
1875 Text | and Alcibiades took the vacant place between Agathon and
1876 Text | lover is more admired and valued and rewarded by them, for
1877 Text | and all the colours and vanities of human life—thither looking,
1878 Text | has heard such a rich and varied discourse? I am especially
1879 Intro| actions of men, he regards as varying according to the manner
1880 Intro| comic) probability and verisimilitude. Nothing in Aristophanes
1881 Text | the proverb says, ‘In vino veritas,’ whether with boys, or
1882 Intro| the feeble rhythms of his verse; of Alcibiades, who is the
1883 Text | had caught his eye was a vessel holding more than two quarts—
1884 Intro| intermingled in it, and vestiges of old philosophy so curiously
1885 Intro| the prevalence of any one vice or corruption that a state
1886 Intro| of great powers and great vices, which meets us in history—
1887 Intro| regard, not without pity, the victims of such illusions in our
1888 Text | Arcadians were dispersed into villages by the Lacedaemonians (compare
1889 Text | affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue;
1890 Text | as the proverb says, ‘In vino veritas,’ whether with boys,
1891 Text | massive garland of ivy and violets, his head flowing with ribands. ‘
1892 Text | been bitten by a more than viper’s tooth; I have known in
1893 Text | among the many who have done virtuously she is one of the very few
1894 Intro| we pass from images of visible beauty (Greek), and from
1895 Text | should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first,
1896 Intro| anonymously by Plutarch, Pelop. Vit. It is observable that Plato
1897 Text | or not?’~The company were vociferous in begging that he would
1898 Text | shall begin.~No one will vote against you, Eryximachus,
1899 Text | Socrates always lying in wait for me, and always, as his
1900 Intro| winter’s night. When he wakes at cockcrow the revellers
1901 Text | conversation? And so we walked, and talked of the discourses
1902 Intro| not like Ate in Homer, walking on the skulls of men, but
1903 Intro| The same passion which may wallow in the mire is capable of
1904 Text | to beget and generate. He wanders about seeking beauty that
1905 Text | decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not fair in one
1906 Intro| of truth may not lack the warmth of desire. And if there
1907 Text | learn from me and take warning, and do not be a fool and
1908 Intro| the consistency of the warring elements of the world, the
1909 Text | who is but a fainthearted warrior, come unbidden (Iliad) to
1910 Intro| Persian and Peloponnesian wars, or of Plato and the Orators,
1911 Text | servant then assisted him to wash, and he lay down, and presently
1912 Text | that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the
1913 Text | growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not
1914 Text | Then, said Eryximachus, the weak heads like myself, Aristodemus,
1915 Text | offspring, on whose behalf the weakest are ready to battle against
1916 Text | cause; for his father is wealthy and wise, and his mother
1917 Intro| were assailed by similar weapons which have been used even
1918 Text | banquet was about to begin. Welcome, Aristodemus, said Agathon,
1919 Intro| He is led in drunk, and welcomed by Agathon, whom he has
1920 Text | finds a fair and noble and well-nurtured soul, he embraces the two
1921 Intro| more than is natural in a well-regulated mind. The Platonic Socrates (
1922 Intro| lawlessness— ‘the lion’s whelp, who ought not to be reared
1923 Text | with the desire of union; whereto is added the care of offspring,
1924 Intro| description of the human monster whirling round on four arms and four
1925 | whither
1926 | whoever
1927 Text | describing. But my words have a wider application —they include
1928 Text | images of virtue, and of the widest comprehension, or rather
1929 Intro| he might bring back his wife, was mocked with an apparition
1930 Text | at them. If I do, he goes wild with envy and jealousy,
1931 Text | not enfold all things, or wind his way into and out of
1932 Text | stormy deep, Who stills the winds and bids the sufferer sleep.’~
1933 Text | head of this fairest and wisest of men, as I may be allowed
1934 Text | him. Many a time have I wished that he were dead, and yet
1935 Intro| Eryximachus, Phaedrus, and others, withdraw; and Aristodemus, the follower
1936 Text | to be mad, and out of my wits, is just because I have
1937 Text | known, I should not have wondered at your wisdom, neither
1938 Text | suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty (and this, Socrates,
1939 Text | man, as water runs through wool out of a fuller cup into
1940 Text | little fellow, who never wore any shoes, Aristodemus,
1941 Text | peacemaker of gods and men, working by a knowledge of the religious
1942 Intro| creature~Moving about in worlds not realized,~which no art
1943 Text | by substitution, the old worn-out mortality leaving another
1944 Text | day no one has ever dared worthily to hymn Love’s praises!
1945 Text | to the palaestra; and he wrestled and closed with me several
1946 Text | but I was really a most wretched being, no better than you
1947 Intro| Symposium of Xenophon, if written by him at all, would certainly
1948 Text | they are good, and when wrongly done they are evil; and
1949 Intro| would certainly show that he wrote against Plato, and was acquainted
1950 Text | or doings which have been wrung from his agony. For I have
1951 Text | another. For the intense yearning which each of them has towards
1952 | yourselves
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