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Contents: ParmenidesPhilebusSymposiumPhaedrus |
Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Symposium: Apollodorus
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[201d] whom you cannot contradict: Socrates you easily may.” 1 “And now I shall let you alone, and proceed with the discourse upon Love which I heard one day from a Mantinean woman named Diotima:2 in this subject she was skilled, and in many others too; for once, by bidding the Athenians offer sacrifices ten years before the plague, she procured them so much delay in the advent of the sickness. Well, I also had my lesson from her in love-matters; so now I will try and follow up the points on which Agathon and I have just agreed by narrating to you all on my own account, as well as I am able, the speech she delivered to me. So first, Agathon, I must unfold,
1 The Speech of Socrates 2 These names suggest a connection respectively with prophecy and with the favor of Heaven.
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 201d (general note)
section 201d: Kai se...easô
section 201d: Mantinikês Diotimas
section 201d: pro tou loimou
section 201d: autos ep' emautou
section 201d: hôsper su diêgêsô
Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
429 [1) Anti und pro, vor.]
Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
* [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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