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    Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus

    Symposium: Apollodorus

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    [215c] Why, yes, and a far more marvellous one than the satyr. His lips indeed had power to entrance mankind by means of instruments; a thing still possible today for anyone who can pipe his tunes: for the music of Olympus' flute belonged, I may tell you, to Marsyas his teacher. So that if anyone, whether a fine flute-player or paltry flute-girl, can but flute his tunes, they have no equal for exciting a ravishment, and will indicate by the divinity that is in them who are apt recipients of the deities and their sanctifications. You differ from him in one point only--that you produce the same effect with simple prose unaided by instruments. For example, when we hear any other person--


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    Further comments from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
    section 215c: Olumpos
    section 215c: dêloi...deomenous
    section 215c: psilois logois

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    578 [c) Konzessive Adverbialsätze.]

    Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
    * [(B) The Prologue of Aristodemus.]
    * [Commentary]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
    OCLC: 20083931, 19433521, 377367, 21777623
    ISBN: 0674990404, 0674991842, 0674991850, 0674991826

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