Diotma's speech
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English
R.E. Allen 1991
Jowett 1871
κυοῦσιν γάρ , ἔφη , ὦ Σώκρατες , πάντες ἄνθρωποι καὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν , καὶ ἐπειδὰν ἔν τινι ἡλικίαι γένωνται , τίκτειν ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡμῶν ἡ φύσις . τίκτειν δὲ ἐν μὲν αἰσχρῶι οὐ δύναται , ἐν δὲ τῶι καλῶι .
All men are pregnant in respect to both the body and the soul , Socrates , she said , and when they reach certain age our nature desires to beget . It cannot beget in ugliness , only in beauty .
I mean to say , that all men are bringing to the birth in their bodies and in their souls . There is a certain age at which human nature is desirous of procreation—procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity .