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

4.59 Now the good procurer would teach only the words that tend to make one attractive, would he not? Certainly. Which one would be the better? he continued, the one who could make people attractive to a single person or the one who could make them attractive to many? This question brought a division; some said, Clearly the one who could make them attractive to a great many; the others merely repeated, Certainly.

4.60 Remarking that they were all of one mind on this point as on the others, he went on: If a person could render people attractive to the entire community, would he not satisfy the requirements of the ideal procurer? Indubitably, they all said. And so, if one could produce men of this type out of his clients, he would be entitled to feel proud of his profession and to receive a high remuneration, would he not?

4.61 All agreeing on this point, too, he added, Antisthenes here seems to me to be a man of just that sort. Antisthenes asked, Are you resigning your profession to me, Socrates? Assuredly, was the answer. For I see that you have brought to a high state of perfection the complementary trade. What is that? The profession of go-between, he said.