The Symposium by Xenophon

Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Classical literature, Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Published: 2012-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

Seven tripods, which ne'er felt the fire, and of gold ten talents

And burnished braziers twenty, and horses twelve— (70)

by weight and measure duly reckoned, (71) I cannot stay my craving for enormous wealth. And that's the reason certain people, I daresay, imagine I am inordinately fond of riches.

(69) Or, "his want-for-nothing," or, "supply-all."

(70) Niceratus quotes "Il." ix. 122, 123, 263, 264.

(71) Or, "by number and by measure," "so much apiece, so much a

pound," in reference to Antisthenes' remark that Socrates does not

stint his "good things."

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