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

3.6 But have you failed to observe, questioned Antisthenes, that the rhapsodes,These professional reciters of epic poetry are represented as being criticized by Socrates, in much the same way as here, in Xenophon’s Memorabilia, IV. ii. 10 and in Plato’s Ion. too, all know these poems? How could I, he replied, when I listen to their recitations nearly every day? Well, do you know any tribe of men, went on the other, more stupid than the rhapsodes? No, indeed, answered Niceratus; not I, I am sure. No, said Socrates; and the reason is clear: they do not know the inner meaning of the poems. But you have paid a good deal of money to Stesimbrotus, Anaximander, and many other Homeric critics, so that nothing of their valuable teaching can have escaped your knowledge.

3.7 But what about you, Critobulus? he continued. What do you take greates pride in? In beauty, he replied. What? exclaimed Socrates. Are you too going to be able to maintain that you can make us better, and by means of your beauty? Why, otherwise, it is clear enough that I shall cut but an indifferent figure.Critobulus seems to imply that beauty is his only resource.