Emmy Madden
Bowdoin College
Plato, Symposium 174a
Emmy Madden /
- Created on 2026-03-04 15:30:13
- Modified on 2026-03-04 15:45:55
- Translated by Benjamin Jowett
- Aligned by Emmy Madden
Ἑλληνική Transliterate
English
Ἔφη γάρ οἱ Σωκράτη ἐντυχεῖν λελουμένον τε καὶ τὰς βλαύτας ὑποδεδεμένον , ἃ ἐκεῖνος ὀλιγάκις ἐποίει · καὶ ἐρέσθαι αὐτὸν ὅποι ἴοι οὕτω καλὸς γεγενημένος .
Καὶ τὸν εἰπεῖν ὅτι Ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς Ἀγάθωνος . χθὲς γὰρ αὐτὸν διέφυγον τοῖς ἐπινικίοις , φοβηθεὶς τὸν ὄχλον · ὡμολόγησα δ᾽ εἰς τήμερον παρέσεσθαι . ταῦτα δὴ ἐκαλλωπισάμην , ἵνα καλὸς παρὰ καλὸν ἴω .
Καὶ τὸν εἰπεῖν ὅτι Ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς Ἀγάθωνος . χθὲς γὰρ αὐτὸν διέφυγον τοῖς ἐπινικίοις , φοβηθεὶς τὸν ὄχλον · ὡμολόγησα δ᾽ εἰς τήμερον παρέσεσθαι . ταῦτα δὴ ἐκαλλωπισάμην , ἵνα καλὸς παρὰ καλὸν ἴω .
He
said
that
he
had
met
Socrates
fresh
from
the
bath
and
sandalled
;
and
as
the
sight
of
the
sandals
was
unusual
,
he
asked
him
wither
he
was
going
that
he
had
been
converted
into
such
a
beau
:
--
To a banquet at Agathon’s , he replied , whose invitation to his sacrifice of victory I refused yesterday , fearing a crowd , but promising that I would come to-day instead ; and so I have put on my finery , because he is such a fine man .
To a banquet at Agathon’s , he replied , whose invitation to his sacrifice of victory I refused yesterday , fearing a crowd , but promising that I would come to-day instead ; and so I have put on my finery , because he is such a fine man .
Plato, Symposium 206c
Emmy Madden /
- Created on 2026-03-27 14:12:57
- Modified on 2026-04-03 02:10:58
- Translated by R.E. Allen 1991; David Horan 2025
- Aligned by Emmy Madden
Ἑλληνική
English
English
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 . "
" All people are pregnant either in respect of the body or in respect of the soul , and once we attain a certain age our nature has a desire to bring forth . But it is not able to bring forth in ugliness , only in beauty "
Plato, Symposium 191a-b
Emmy Madden /
- Created on 2026-04-03 02:58:54
- Translated by Harold N. Fowler, 1925
- Aligned by Emmy Madden
Ἑλληνική Transliterate
Ἑλληνική Transliterate
ἐπειδὴ οὖν ἡ φύσις δίχα ἐτμήθη , ποθοῦν ἕκαστον τὸ ἥμισυ τὸ αὑτοῦ συνήιει , καὶ περιβάλλοντες τὰς χεῖρας καὶ συμπλεκόμενοι ἀλλήλοις , ἐπιθυμοῦντες συμφῦναι , ἀπέθνηισκον ὑπὸ λιμοῦ καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀργίας διὰ τὸ μηδὲν ἐθέλειν χωρὶς ἀλλήλων ποιεῖν .
Now
when
our
first
form
had
been
cut
in
two
,
each
half
in
longing
for
its
fellow
would
come
to
it
again
;
and
then
would
they
fling
their
arms
about
each
other
and
in
mutual
embraces
yearn
to
be
grafted
together
,
till
they
began
to
perish
of
hunger
and
general
indolence
,
through
refusing
to
do
anything
apart
.
Plato, Symposium 190a-b
Emmy Madden /
- Created on 2026-04-30 01:36:01
- Modified on 2026-05-01 23:19:24
- Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818; Seth Benardete, 2001
- Aligned by Emmy Madden
Ἑλληνική
English
English
ἦν δὲ διὰ ταῦτα τρία τὰ γένη καὶ τοιαῦτα , ὅτι τὸ μὲν ἄρρεν ἦν τοῦ ἡλίου τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔκγονον , τὸ δὲ θῆλυ τῆς γῆς , τὸ δὲ ἀμφοτέρων μετέχον τῆς σελήνης , ὅτι καὶ ἡ σελήνη ἀμφοτέρων μετέχει · περιφερῆ δὲ δὴ ἦν καὶ αὐτὰ καὶ ἡ πορεία αὐτῶν διὰ τὸ τοῖς γονεῦσιν ὅμοια εἶναι .
We account for the production of three sexes by supposing that , at the beginning , the male was produced from the sun , the female from the earth ; and that sex which participated in both sexes , from the moon , by reason of the androgynous nature of the moon . They were round , and their mode of proceeding was round , from the similarity which must needs subsist between them and their parent .
It is for this reason that the races were three and of this
sort : because the male was in origin the offspring of the sun ; the
female , of the earth ; and the race that shared in both , of the
moon—since the moon also shares in both . And they themselves
were globular , as was their manner of walking , because they
were like their parents .
sort : because the male was in origin the offspring of the sun ; the
female , of the earth ; and the race that shared in both , of the
moon—since the moon also shares in both . And they themselves
were globular , as was their manner of walking , because they
were like their parents .