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    R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato

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    Commentary on Plato, Symposium. section 218b.

    [218B] sungnôsesthe. This echoes the sungnôsomenois of 218 A supra.

    hoi de oiketai. This echoes Diotima's hôsper oiketês, 210 D ad init.: cp. Ar. Ach. 242, Ran. 41 for the nomin. of address.

    bebêlos. Cp. Schol. Aristid. III. p. 471 esti de kêrugma mustikon to “thuras... bebêloi,” hôs pou kai Orpheus dêloi “phthenxomai hois themis esti: thuras d' epithesthe bebêloi”: Tim. bebêloi: amuêtoi. Alcib.'s language, like Diotima's, is suggestive of mystery-lore: cp. Theaet. 155 E; Eur. Bacch. 70 ff., 472; Horace's “odi profanum volgus et arceo.”

    pulas...tois ôsin. Cp. Theogn. 421 pollois anthrôpôn glôssêi thurai ouk epikeintai | harmodiai.

    ho te luchnos apesbêkei. Cp. Ar. Plut. 668 hôs de tous luchnous aposbesas... enkatheudein: Juv. IX. 104, Hor. C. III. 6. 28.



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