“How can that be?” I said.
“That is very intelligible,” she replied; “as you yourself would acknowledge that the gods are happy and fair—of course you would—would you dare to say that any god was not?”
“Certainly not,” I replied.
“And you mean by the happy, those who are the possessors of things good and fair?”
“Yes.”
“And you admitted that love, because he was in want, desires those good and fair things of which he is in want?”
“Yes, I admitted that.”
“But how can he be a god who has no share in the good or the fair?”
“That is not to be supposed.”
“Then you see that you also deny the deity of love.”