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Contents: ParmenidesPhilebusSymposiumPhaedrus |
Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Symposium: Apollodorus
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[191d] in mankind, reassembling our early estate and endeavoring to combine two in one and heal the human sore. “Each of us, then, is but a tally1 of a man, since every one shows like a flat-fish the traces of having been sliced in two; and each is ever searching for the tally that will fit him. All the men who are sections of that composite sex that at first was called man-woman are woman-courters; our adulterers are mostly descended from that sex,
1 A tally, or notched stick matching another, is the nearest English equivalent for sumbolon, which was a half of a broken die given and kept as a token of friendship; see below, Plat. Sym. 193a (listai).
There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.
Further comments from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
section 191d: sunagôgeus
section 191d: anthrôpou xumbolon
section 191d: hai psêttai
section 191d: philogunaikes
Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
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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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