![]() IV.Īll the guests agree not to drink too much.Įveryone agreed not to spend the present meeting to get drunk and to drink only to his pleasure But Socrates returns the compliment, saying that it would be nice if wisdom could be transmitted this way, in which case he himself would be the beneficiary because he would get Agathon’s wisdom back. Indeed, Socrates appears in the middle of the dinner.Īgathon offers him to sit next to him, telling him that by touching him his wise thoughts will reach him. ![]() But when he arrives, he stays behind.įollow me, he says, and let’s say, modifying the proverb, that good people go to dinner at good people’s houses without being asked.Īgathon wants to send for Socrates, but Aristodemus tells him to leave him alone, because he is regularly coming. Socrates, who has taken care of his appearance to go to Agathon’s for dinner, invites Aristodemus to accompany him for the meal. ![]() ![]() We understand at first that it is Apollodorus who is going to tell the testimony of Aristodemus.Īpollodorus : Well then, here they are, more or less but it is better to try to take things back to the beginning, in the order in which Aristodemus told them to me ![]()
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