R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, section 196D

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Aristodemus's Prologue

Speech of Phaedrus

Speech of Pausanias

First Interlude

Speech of Eryximachus

Second Interlude

Speech of Aristophanes

Third Interlude

Speech of Agathon

Fourth Interlude

Discussion between Socrates and Agathon

Speech of Socrates

Fifth Interlude

Alcibiades Praises Socrates

Conclusion of the Dialogue

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ὡς λόγος. See Hom. Od. VIII. 266 ff., already alluded to in 192 D.

πάντων ἂν...εἴη. Another illegitimate conclusion. By means of a tacit substitution of the notion ἀνδρεία for κράτος, it is assumed that ὁ κρατῶν τοῦ ἀνδρείου must be ἀνδρειότερος.

The Symposium of Plato. R. G. Bury. 1909. Cambridge. W. Heffer and Sons.

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