R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, section 221A

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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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ἀπὸ Δηλίου. For this famous battle in Boeotia (424 B.C.), when the Athenians under Hippocrates were routed by the Thebans under Pagondas, see Thuc. IV. 76 ff., Bury's Hist. Gr. pp. 442—3.

καὶ Λάχης. Cp. Lach. 181 B. Athenaeus (V. 329 ff.) perversely contends that Socr. took part in no battle.

περιτυγχάνω. Cp. Hermann on Ar. Nub. 196, “ἐπιτυγχάνειν dicitur qui quaerit, περιτυγχ. qui non quaerens in aliquid incidit.”

κάλλιον ἐθεασάμην. “I got a finer view of”: cp. Rep. 467 E ἐφ᾽ ἵππων... κάλλιστά τε θεάσονται...καὶ ἀσφαλέστατα κτλ.

ἐν φόβῳ. Cp. 197 D.

ἔμφρων. “Cool,” “collected”; cp. Ion 535 B πότερον ἔμφρων εἶ, ἢ ἔξω σαυτοῦ γίγνει; Laws 791 B ἀντὶ μανικῶν...ἕξεις ἔμφρονας ἔχειν.

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

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