PLATONIC LOVE  , a See also:

• TERM

term commonly applied to an affectionate relation between a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and a woman into which the sexual See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element does not enter . The term in See also:

• ENGLISH

English goes back as far as See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• DAVENANT (or D'AVENANT), SIR WILLIAM (1606-1668)
• DAVENANT, CHARLES (1656-1714)

Davenant's Platonic Lovers (1636) . It is derived from the conception, in See also:

• PLATO

Plato's See also:

• SYMPOSIUM (Gr. avyr6cnov, a drinking party, from avµirivecv, to drink together, abv, with, and 7rivecv, to drink, root 7ro, cf. Lat. potare, to drink, poculum, cup)

Symposium, of the love of the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good which lies at the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of all virtue and truth . Amer platonicus was used, e.g. by Marsilio See also:

• FICINO, MARSILIO (1433-1499)

Ficino (15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century), as a synonym for amor socraticus, referring to the See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection which subsisted between See also:

• SOCRATES

Socrates and his pupils .