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The Symposium by Xenophon
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go-between;[89] and please to answer every question without
hesitating; let us know the points to which we mutually assent.[90]
Are you agreed to that?

[88] Or, "define in common." Cf. "Mem." IV. vi. 15.

[89] Or, "man-praiser." Cf. "The Manx Witch," p. 47 (T. E. Brown),
"And Harry, more like a dooiney-molla For Jack, lak helpin him to
woo." See, too, Mr. Hall Caine's "Manxman," p. 73.

[90] See Plat. "Rep." 342 D, for a specimen of Socratic procedure,
"from one point of agreement to another."

The Company, in chorus. Without a doubt (they answered, and the
formula, once started, was every time repeated by the company, full
chorus).

Soc. Are you agreed it is the business of a good go-between to make
him (or her) on whom he plies his art agreeable to those with
them?[91]

[91] Al. "their followers." See "Mem." II. vi. 36.

Omnes. Without a doubt.

Soc. And, further, that towards agreeableness, one step at any rate
consists in wearing a becoming fashion of the hair and dress?[92] Are
you agreed to that?

[92] See Becker, "Char." Exc. iii. to Sc. xi.
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