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Contents: ParmenidesPhilebusSymposiumPhaedrus |
Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Symposium: Apollodorus
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[202e] “‘Well what?’ “‘As I previously suggested, between a mortal and an immortal.’ “‘And what is that, Diotima?’ “‘A great spirit, Socrates: for the whole of the spiritual1 is between divine and mortal.’ “‘Possessing what power?’ I asked. “‘Interpreting and transporting human things to the gods and divine things to men; entreaties and sacrifices from below, and ordinances and requitals from above: being midway between, it makes each to supplement the other, so that the whole is combined in one. Through it are conveyed all divination and priestcraft concerning sacrifice and ritual
1 Daimones and to daimonion represent the mysterious agencies and influences by which the gods communicate with mortals.
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Further comments from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
section 202e: Hermêneuon
section 202e: amoibas
section 202e: tôn thusiôn
section 202e: en mesôi de on
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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