Of Love
Translated by John Philips
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Of love.
FLAVIANUS AND AUTOBULUS, SONS OF PLUTARCH.
FLAVIANUS. Was it not in Helicon, dear Autobulus, that those discourses were held concerning Love, which — whether thou hast already set them down in writing, or still carriest them in thy memory, as having often desired them from thy father — we are now in expectation that thou wilt recite to us, at our importunate request?
AUTOBULUS. I was in Helicon, dear Flavianus, among the Muses, at what time the Thespians performed the Erotic solemnities. For they celebrate every four years certain games and festivals very magnificent and splendid in honor of Cupid, as well as of the Muses.
FLAV. Know’st thou then what it is we all desire at thy hands, as many as are gathered here together to be thy auditors?
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