R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, § i. Summary of the Argument., XI. The fourth Interlude: 198 A-199 C.

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XI. The fourth Interlude: 198 A-199 C.

Agathon “brought down the house” with his peroration; and Socrates remarked to Eryximachus that its eloquence left him in despair —petrified by the Gorgon of Agathon's brilliant Gorgianisms. “Now,” he said, “I must retract my rash tongue-pledge to join in a eulogy of Eros, since I perceive that I was quite astray in my ideas about the encomiastic art: for I supposed that truth came first, ornamental compliment second, whereas the contrary is evidently the fact. Such an encomium is quite beyond my poor powers; but if you care for an unvarnished speech about Eros, that I am ready to make.” Phaedrus and the rest bidding him proceed in his own fashion, Socrates began by the following conversation with Agathon.

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

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