Plato, Symposium, section 220c

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[220c] “So much for that:“but next, the valiant deed our strong-souled hero dared
”¹on service there one day, is well worth hearing. Immersed in some problem at dawn, he stood in the same spot considering it; and when he found it a tough one, he would not give it up but stood there trying. The time drew on to midday, and the men began to notice him, and said to one another in wonder: ‘Socrates has been standing there in a study ever since dawn!’ The end of it was that in the evening some of the Ionians after they had supped—

1 Hom. Od. 4.242

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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Commentary references to this page (3):
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 175C
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 203D
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 3.414E
Cross-references to this page (6):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE PARTICIPLE
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the subject.
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, § v. Alcibiades and his Speech.
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, § ix. The Text.
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Homer, Odyssey, 4.242
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (7):
- LSJ, ἄλλος
- LSJ, ἑσπέρα
- LSJ, φροντ-ίζω
- LSJ, μεσημβρ-ία
- LSJ, οὗτος
- LSJ, στρα^τεία
- LSJ, συννο-έω

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