Symposium

Sections

1.1 – 1.4 1.5 – 1.8 1.9 – 1.11 1.12 – 1.14 1.15 – 1.16 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.5 2.6 – 2.9 2.10 – 2.12 2.13 – 2.16 2.17 – 2.19 2.20 – 2.22 2.23 – 2.25 2.26 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.3 3.4 – 3.5 3.6 – 3.7 3.8 – 3.11 3.12 – 3.14 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.6 4.7 – 4.9 4.10 – 4.13 4.14 – 4.16 4.17 – 4.19 4.20 – 4.22 4.23 – 4.26 4.27 – 4.29 4.30 – 4.31 4.32 – 4.34 4.35 – 4.37 4.38 – 4.41 4.42 – 4.44 4.45 – 4.46 4.47 – 4.48 4.49 – 4.51 4.52 – 4.55 4.56 – 4.58 4.59 – 4.61 4.62 – 4.63 4.64 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.5 5.6 – 5.8 5.9 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.5 6.6 – 6.7 6.8 – 6.9 6.10 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.5 8.1 – 8.4 8.5 – 8.8 8.9 – 8.12 8.13 – 8.16 8.17 – 8.19 8.20 – 8.22 8.23 – 8.26 8.27 – 8.29 8.30 – 8.30 8.31 – 8.33 8.34 – 8.35 8.36 – 8.38 8.39 – 8.39 8.40 – 8.40 8.41 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7

İngilizce Yunanca

2.23 and when he was quite exhausted, he exclaimed as he laid himself down: Here is proof, gentlemen, that my style of dancing, also, gives excellent exercise; it has certainly given me a thirst; so let the servant fill me up the big goblet.

2.24 Certainly, replied Callias; and the same for us, for we are thirsty with laughing at you. Here Socrates again interposed. Well, gentlemen, said he, so far as drinking is concerned, you have my hearty approval; for wine does of a truth moisten the soulApparently a reminiscence of Aristophanes’ Knights, 96. and lull our griefs to sleep just as the mandragora does with men, at the same time awakening kindly feelings as oil quickens a flame.

2.25 However, I suspect that men’s bodies fare the same as those of plants that grow in the ground. When God gives the plants water in floods to drink, they cannot stand up straight or let the breezes blow through them; but when they drink only as much as they enjoy, they grow up very straight and tall and come to full and abundant fruitage.