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

4.14 So far as I, at least, am concerned, although I realize that money is a delightful possession, I should take more delight in giving what I have to Cleinias than in adding to my possessions from another person’s; and I should take more delight in being a slave than in being a free man, if Cleinias would deign to be my master. For I should find it easier to toil for him than to rest, and it would be more delightful to risk my life for his sake than to live in safety.

4.15 And so, Callias, if you are proud of your ability to make people more righteous, I have a better right than you to claim that I can influence men toward every sort of virtue. For since we handsome men exert a certain inspiration upon the amorous, we make them more generous in money matters, more strenuous and heroic amid dangers, yes, and more modest and self-controlled also; for they feel abashed about the very things that they want most.

4.16 Madness is in those people, too, who do not elect the handsome men as generals; I certainly would go through fire with Cleinias, and I know that you would, also, with me. Therefore, Socrates, do not puzzle any more over the question whether or not my beauty will be of any benefit to men.