...Diotima says to Socrates that love flourishes in abundance, but dies in want. Sappho conveys the same meaning when she calls love sweetly bitter and a painful gift. Socrates calls love a sophist, Sappho a ringlet of words. Socrates says that he is agitated with Bacchic fury through the love of Phoedrus; but she that love shakes her mind as the wind when it falls on mountain-oaks. Socrates reprov...