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360 BC

SYMPOSIUM

by Plato

translated by Benjamin Jowett

SYMPOSIUM

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: APOLLODORUS, who repeats to his companion

the dialogue which he had heard from Aristodemus, and had already once

narrated to Glaucon; PHAEDRUS; PAUSANIAS; ERYXIMACHUS; ARISTOPHANES;

AGATHON; SOCRATES; ALCIBIADES; A TROOP OF REVELLERS. Scene: The

House of Agathon.



Concerning the things about which you ask to be informed I believe

that I am not ill-prepared with an answer. For the day before

yesterday I was coming from my own home at Phalerum to the city, and

one of my acquaintance, who had caught a sight of me from behind,

hind, out playfully in the distance, said: Apollodorus, O thou

Phalerian man, halt! So I did as I was bid; and then he said, I was

looking for you, Apollodorus, only just now, that I might ask you

about the speeches in praise of love, which were delivered by

Socrates, Alcibiades, and others, at Agathon's supper. Phoenix, the

son of Philip, told another person who told me of them; his

narrative was very indistinct, but he said that you knew, and I wish

that you would give me an account of them. Who, if not you, should

be the reporter of the words of your friend? And first tell me, he

said, were you present at this meeting?