Cratylus
    Part
  1 Intro|        proper name Sous, or Rush; agathon is ro agaston en te tachuteti,—
  2 Text |   supposed to be in motion. Good (agathon) is the name which is given
  3 Text |          part of nature is called agathon. Dikaiosune (justice) is
  4 Text |          which are connected with agathon and kalon, such as sumpheron
  5 Text | profitable), kerdaleon (gainful), agathon (good), sumpheron (expedient),
  6 Text |          of other names? The word agathon (good), for example, is,


Protagoras
    Part
  7 Text |           that I heard him called Agathon, and my suspicion is that


The Symposium
    Part
  8 Intro|          others at the banquet of Agathon is desirous of having an
  9 Intro|           banquet at the house of Agathon, who had been sacrificing
 10 Intro|         alluding to Pausanias and Agathon (compare Protag.), for my
 11 Intro|     Eryximachus, and then between Agathon, who fears a few select
 12 Intro|         their tribute to the god. Agathon’s speech follows:—~He will
 13 Intro|           to begin by questioning Agathon. The result of his questions
 14 Intro|      woman of Mantinea, who, like Agathon, had spoken first of love
 15 Intro|         his works. Socrates, like Agathon, had told her that Love
 16 Intro|    Alcibiades is heard asking for Agathon. He is led in drunk, and
 17 Intro|         in drunk, and welcomed by Agathon, whom he has come to crown
 18 Intro|    carried on between them, which Agathon is requested to appease.
 19 Intro|    dispute begins between him and Agathon and Socrates. Socrates piques
 20 Intro|           pretended affection for Agathon. Presently a band of revellers
 21 Intro|       Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon hold out; they are drinking
 22 Intro|            as the day is dawning, Agathon. Socrates, having laid them
 23 Intro|           is home sickness.’ When Agathon says that no man ‘can be
 24 Intro|     imagery a serious purpose; of Agathon, who in later life is satirized
 25 Intro|       physical speakers, while in Agathon and Socrates poetry and
 26 Intro|   superiority which he gains over Agathon is ingeniously represented
 27 Intro|          sufficient indication to Agathon that Socrates has been left
 28 Intro|            2) how the courtesy of Agathon anticipates the excuse which
 29 Intro|   dialectics, who will argue with Agathon instead of making a speech,
 30 Intro|         The love of Pausanias for Agathon has already been touched
 31 Intro|           realized.~The speech of Agathon is conceived in a higher
 32 Intro|           to him. The rhetoric of Agathon elevates the soul to ‘sunlit
 33 Intro|  necessary eloquence of Socrates. Agathon contributes the distinction
 34 Intro|          comic poet Aristophanes, Agathon, the tragic poet, has a
 35 Intro|           adds) of the good; from Agathon, that love is of beauty,
 36 Intro|         which overthrows not only Agathon but all the preceding speakers
 37 Intro|   argument which he urges against Agathon. That the distinction is
 38 Text |        Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, Alcibiades, A
 39 Text |    Revellers.~SCENE: The House of Agathon.~Concerning the things about
 40 Text |        Alcibiades, and others, at Agathon’s supper. Phoenix, the son
 41 Text |      ignorant that for many years Agathon has not resided at Athens;
 42 Text |          boyhood, I replied, when Agathon won the prize with his first
 43 Text |      Cydathenaeum. He had been at Agathon’s feast; and I think that
 44 Text |          a beau:—~To a banquet at Agathon’s, he replied, whose invitation
 45 Text |           he reached the house of Agathon he found the doors wide
 46 Text |        Welcome, Aristodemus, said Agathon, as soon as he appeared—
 47 Text |       quite right in coming, said Agathon; but where is he himself?~
 48 Text |           look for him, boy, said Agathon, and bring him in; and do
 49 Text |          stir.’~How strange, said Agathon; then you must call him
 50 Text |            I will leave him, said Agathon. And then, turning to the
 51 Text |     Socrates; and during the meal Agathon several times expressed
 52 Text |       duration —Socrates entered. Agathon, who was reclining alone
 53 Text |           mocking, Socrates, said Agathon, and ere long you and I
 54 Text |        one other person speak: Is Agathon able to drink hard?~I am
 55 Text |          am not equal to it, said Agathon.~Then, said Eryximachus,
 56 Text |        love; nor, I presume, will Agathon and Pausanias; and there
 57 Text |           saying to Pausanias and Agathon, who, as I suspect, are
 58 Text |       each, or rather either, for Agathon and Socrates are the only
 59 Text |           and did I not know that Agathon and Socrates are masters
 60 Text |         rather as I shall be when Agathon has spoken, you would, indeed,
 61 Text |           over me, Socrates, said Agathon, in the hope that I may
 62 Text |           be strangely forgetful, Agathon replied Socrates, of the
 63 Text |         you think, Socrates, said Agathon, that my head is so full
 64 Text |      wrong in attributing to you, Agathon, that or any other want
 65 Text |          would you not?~Yes, said Agathon.~But before the many you
 66 Text |           not answer him, my dear Agathon; for if he can only get
 67 Text |         Very good, Phaedrus, said Agathon; I see no reason why I should
 68 Text |         dedicate to the god.~When Agathon had done speaking, Aristodemus
 69 Text |          prophet when I said that Agathon would make a wonderful oration,
 70 Text |           prophecy which concerns Agathon, replied Eryximachus, appears
 71 Text |         his speech I fancied that Agathon was shaking at me the Gorginian
 72 Text |           permission first to ask Agathon a few more questions, in
 73 Text |           you were right, my dear Agathon, in proposing to speak of
 74 Text |         be right.~Very true, said Agathon.~And you would say the same
 75 Text |       nothing, is in my judgment, Agathon, absolutely and necessarily
 76 Text |            I agree with you, said Agathon.~Very good. Would he who
 77 Text |    possessors of these qualities, Agathon, must be supposed to have
 78 Text |          he not?~He must, replied Agathon.~Then, said Socrates, he
 79 Text |           of that kind?~Yes, said Agathon.~Yes, my friend, and the
 80 Text |           that love is beautiful?~Agathon replied: I fear that I did
 81 Text |          made a very good speech, Agathon, replied Socrates; but there
 82 Text |        refute you, Socrates, said Agathon:—Let us assume that what
 83 Text |         true.~Say rather, beloved Agathon, that you cannot refute
 84 Text |       with the admissions made by Agathon, which are nearly if not
 85 Text |         compare Gorgias). As you, Agathon, suggested (supra), I must
 86 Text |           a flute-girl was heard. Agathon told the attendants to go
 87 Text |    roaring and shouting ‘Where is Agathon? Lead me to Agathon,’ and
 88 Text |      Where is Agathon? Lead me to Agathon,’ and at length, supported
 89 Text |          revels? Or shall I crown Agathon, which was my intention
 90 Text |         his place among them, and Agathon specially invited him. Thereupon
 91 Text |           led, intending to crown Agathon, he took the ribands from
 92 Text |          the vacant place between Agathon and Socrates, and in taking
 93 Text |      taking the place he embraced Agathon and crowned him. Take off
 94 Text |        Take off his sandals, said Agathon, and let him make a third
 95 Text |       company?~Socrates turned to Agathon and said: I must ask you
 96 Text |       must ask you to protect me, Agathon; for the passion of this
 97 Text | chastisement. And I must beg you, Agathon, to give me back some of
 98 Text |           us have a large goblet, Agathon, or rather, he said, addressing
 99 Text |           around me, Phaedrus and Agathon and Eryximachus and Pausanias
100 Text |           Wherefore I say to you, Agathon, ‘Be not deceived by him;
101 Text |          a quarrel between me and Agathon, and your notion is that
102 Text |        and you only ought to love Agathon. But the plot of this Satyric
103 Text |           you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance.~
104 Text |       believe you are right, said Agathon, and I am disposed to think
105 Text |           I do beseech you, allow Agathon to lie between us.~Certainly
106 Text |          the youth.~Hurrah! cried Agathon, I will rise instantly,
107 Text |    specious reason for attracting Agathon to himself.~Agathon arose
108 Text |    attracting Agathon to himself.~Agathon arose in order that he might
109 Text |       Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon, who were drinking out of
110 Text |          day was already dawning, Agathon. Socrates, having laid them