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platonic love. Such love, devoid of anything sexual, was first described by Plato in his Symposium, where he tells of the pure love of Socrates for young men, a love unusual in its day. Later, in about 1626 in England, the Latin amor Platonicus was trans- lated and applied to similar love between man and woman, the words often heard today in phrases like platonic love, a platonic relationship, and the like. The rare platonics is simply talk be- tween platonic lovers. |