Certainly, he replied.
And would you call that beautiful which wants and does not possess beauty?
Certainly not.
Then would you still say that love is beautiful?
Agathon replied: I fear that I did not understand what I was saying.
Nay, Agathon, replied Socrates; but I should like to
ask you one more question:—is not the good also the
beautiful?
Yes.
Then in wanting the beautiful love wants also the