Tag: Benjamin Jowett

Phaedrus began by affirming that love is a mighty god, and wonderful among gods and men, but especially wonderful in his birth. For he is the eldest of the gods, which is an honour to him ; and a proof of his claim to this honour is, that of his parents there is no memorial…

When Alcibiades had finished, there was a laugh at his outspokenness ; for he seemed to be still in love with Socrates. You are sober, Alcibiades, said Socrates, or you would never have gone so far about to hide the purpose of your satyr’s praises, for all this long story is only an ingenious circumlocution,…

When Socrates had done speaking, the company applauded, and Aristophanes was beginning to say something in answer to the allusion which Socrates had made to his own speech, when suddenly there was a great knocking at the door of the house, as of revellers, and the sound of a flute-girl was heard. Agathon told the…

He said that he met Socrates fresh from the bath and sandalled ; and as the sight of the sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he was going that he had been converted into such a beau : — To a banquet at Agathon’s, he replied, whose invitation to his sacrifice of victory I…

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…