δοκεῖ γάρ μοι. “My sentence
is,” an official formula: cf. Dem. I. 2, IV. 17. Hence the point of
Socrates' phrase ἐναντία ψηφιεῖται, four lines
below.
λόγον...ἔπαινον. Cp. 214 B, Phaedrus 260 B
συντιθεὶς λόγον ἔπαινον κατὰ τοῦ ὄνου.
ἐπὶ δεξιὰ. “From left to
right”: cp. Rep. 420 E (with
Adam's note); Theaet. 175 E. Critias 2. 7 καὶ
προπόσεις ὀρέγειν ἐπιδέξια.
κάλλιστον. Notice that, in Eryximachus'
view, the first requisite is κάλλος, and contrast the
view of Socrates in 198 D ff.
πατὴρ τοῦ λόγου. I.e.
εἰσηγητὴς τοῦ λ., as Plutarch explains
(Plat. Q. 1000 F): the same phrase recurs in Phaedrus 257 B, cp. Theaet. 164 E
ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ μύθου: Lysis 214 A
πατέρες τῆς σοφίας καὶ ἡγεμόνες.
τὰ ἐρωτικά. The objects or principles
with which ἡ ἐρωτικὴ τέχνη (Phaedrus 257 A) is concerned; cp.
186 C, 212 B,
Lysis 204 B. This passage is
alluded to by Themist. Or. XIII. p. 161, Max. Tyr. diss. XXIV. p. 288: for its significance here, see Introd.
§ II. B.
οὔτε που...καὶ
. καὶ is used rather than οὔτε because Pausanias and Agathon formed “ein
Liebespaar” (Hug).
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