The Philosophy of Love

have similarly placed, before each
of the three Dialogues, the argument The "argument" is a brief summary or outline of the philosophical points or plot to follow. or
content of it, as an introduction;
and certain summaries of the princi-
pal matters in the margin marginal: summaries of the principal matters, as if by
chapters, with a table An index or table of contents. of these same
principal matters at the end of the book, to re-
lieve the reader, or those who have already
read it, of greater difficulty. That is everything
about which it seemed good to me to ad-
vise you. For the rest, I will al-
ways recommend myself to