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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: other fair one, or so much as to look at them. If I do, he goes wild with
envy and jealousy, and not only abuses me but can hardly keep his hands off
me, and at this moment he may do me some harm. Please to see to this, and
either reconcile me to him, or, if he attempts violence, protect me, as I
am in bodily fear of his mad and passionate attempts.
There can never be reconciliation between you and me, said Alcibiades; but
for the present I will defer your chastisement. And I must beg you,
Agathon, to give me back some of the ribands that I may crown the
marvellous head of this universal despot--I would not have him complain of
me for crowning you, and neglecting him, who in conversation is the
conqueror of all mankind; and this not only once, as you were the day
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