R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, § i. Summary of the Argument., I. The Preface: 172 A-174 A.

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I. The Preface: 172 A-174 A.

Apollodorus, in reply to the enquiry of some friends, explains the occasion on which the supper-party at Agathon's was held, when Socrates and others delivered Discourses on Eros. The matter is fresh in his memory and, as a φιλόλογος himself, he is quite ready to repeat the whole story as he had it from Aristodemus,—an eye-witness and an intimate disciple of Socrates,—just as he had repeated it a few days before to his friend Glaucon.

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

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I. The Preface: 172 A-174 A.