Some Socrates/Alcibiades Receipts
Proof that Socrates is in love with Alcibiades in Plato and beyond.
The original sources with the ancient greek text, the translation and the word derivatives of "eros" highlighted.
Plato's symposium
213c-213d
καὶ τὸν Σωκράτη, Ἀγάθων, φάναι, ὅρα εἴ μοι ἐπαμύνεις: ὡς ἐμοὶ ὁ τούτου ἔρως τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐ φαῦλον πρᾶγμα γέγονεν. ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνου γὰρ τοῦ χρόνου, ἀφ᾽ οὗ τούτου ἠράσθην, οὐκέτι ἔξεστίν μοι οὔτε προσβλέψαι οὔτε διαλεχθῆναι καλῷ οὐδ᾽ ἑνί, ἢ οὑτοσὶ ζηλοτυπῶν με καὶ φθονῶν θαυμαστὰ ἐργάζεται καὶ λοιδορεῖταί τε καὶ τὼ χεῖρε μόγις ἀπέχεται.
translation:
Then Socrates said, Agathon, do your best to protect me, for I have found my love for this fellow no trifling affair. From the time when I fell in love with him I have not had a moment’s liberty either to look upon or converse with a single handsome person, but the fellow flies into a spiteful jealousy which makes him treat me in a monstrous fashion, girding at me and hardly keeping his hands to himself.
ἐρῶντε δύο ὄντε δυοῖν ἑκάτερος, ἐγὼ μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδου τε τοῦ Κλεινίου καὶ φιλοσοφίας,
translation:
the two of us are in love each with two things—I with Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, and philosophy,
Fragment from Aeschines of Sphettus (11c)
ἐγὼ δὲ διὰ τὸν ἔρωτα ὃν ἐτύγχανον ἐρῶν Ἀλκιβιάδου οὐδὲν διάφορον τῶν Βακχῶν ἐπεπόνθειν. καὶ γὰρ αἱ Βάκχαι ἐπειδὰν ἔνθεοι γένωνται, ὅθεν οἱ ἄλλοι ἐκ τῶν φρεάτων οὐδὲ ὕδωρ δύνανται ὑδρεύεσθαι, ἐκεῖναι μέλι καὶ γάλα ἀρύονται. καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐγὼ οὐδὲν μάθημα ἐπιστάμενος ὃ διδάξας ἄνθρωπον ὠφελήσαιμʼ ἂν, ὅμως ᾤμην ξυνὼν ἂν ἐκείνῳ διὰ τὸ ἐρᾶν βελτίω ποιῆσαι.
translation:
Through the love which I had for Alcibiades I had felt no different from the Bacchants. For whenever the Bacchants become inspired, they draw milk and honey from sources where others cannot even draw water. And though I knew no study by which I might usefully
educate a man , still I thought that by associating with him I would improve him through love.
Alcibiades 1
the entire dialogue.
There's of course the very beginning of the protagoras which however as far I can remember does not include a derivative of eros but it's clear Socrates is into Alcibiades.
For it being reciprocated we have the entirety of alcibiades' speech in the symposium, where he himself admits to being in love with him, and everyone else is mentioned at the end to laugh, having realised he's still in love with socrates after 15+ whole years.
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