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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