previous next

Fourth Interlude

ἀναθορυβῆσαι. Cp. Protag. 334 C εἰπόντος οὖν ταῦτα αὐτοῦ οἱ παρόντες ἀνεθορύβησαν ὡς εὖ λέγοι: Euthyd. 276 B; Cic. Sen. 18. 64 a cuncto consessu plausus multiplex datus.

πρεπόντως...τῷ θεῷ. Cp. Laws 699 D εἴρηκας σαυτῷ τε καὶ τῇ πατρίδι πρεπόντως.

ὦ παῖ Ἀκουμενοῦ. Observe the mock-solemnity of this mode of address: cp. 172 A, 214 B. Socrates addresses Eryx. with allusion to his language in 193 E (εἰ μὴ ξυνῄδη κτλ.).

ἀδεὲς...δέος δεδιέναι. Schol. ἀδεὲς δέος: ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ μὴ ἄξια φόβου δεδιότων. ὅμοιον τούτῳ καὶ τὸ ψοφοδεὴς ἄνθρωπος (Phaedrus 257 D). Observe how Socr. here, in caricature of Agathon's style (e.g. 197 D), combines in one phrase the figura etymologica and the figure oxymoron: cp. Eur. I. T. 216 νύμφαν δύσνυμφον: ib. 566 χάριν ἄχαριν: id. Hel. 690 γάμον ἄγαμον.

ἃ νῦν δὴ ἔλεγον. The reference is to 194 A.


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

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide References (9 total)
  • Commentary references from this page (9):
    • Plato, Laws, 699d
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 257d
    • Plato, Symposium, 172a
    • Plato, Symposium, 193e
    • Plato, Symposium, 194a
    • Plato, Symposium, 197d
    • Plato, Symposium, 214b
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 276b
    • Plato, Protagoras, 334c
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: