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[219d] with Socrates than if it had been with my father or my elder brother.

“After that, you can imagine what a state of mind I was in, feeling myself affronted, yet marvelling at the sobriety and integrity of his nature: for I had lighted on a man such as I never would have dreamt of meeting—so sensible and so resolute. Hence I could find neither a reason for being angry and depriving myself of his society nor a ready means


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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  • Commentary references to this page (4):
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 212B
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 216A
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 219C
    • J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XII
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