1 definition by Gwendolyn D' Fortuna
Means -- as much good stuff as you can imagine.
I just noticed that Socrates said it first in Plato's Symposium (a dinner party story) when he was commenting on the kind of praise everyone was giving the god "Love" and how it might not be true praise, but maybe only flattery. It's liable to be exaggerated flattery because there is no one listening who really knows him (the god Love) who's gonna prove you wrong.
I just noticed that Socrates said it first in Plato's Symposium (a dinner party story) when he was commenting on the kind of praise everyone was giving the god "Love" and how it might not be true praise, but maybe only flattery. It's liable to be exaggerated flattery because there is no one listening who really knows him (the god Love) who's gonna prove you wrong.
"And so you attribute to Love every imaginable form of praise which can be gathered anywhere; and you say that "he is all this," and "the cause of all that," making him appear the fairest and best of all to those who know him not, for you cannot impose upon those who know him."
by Gwendolyn D' Fortuna March 1, 2007