Eryximachus has an interesting name. You might say his name faded him to become a doctor.
It comes from. . . the " -machus" part of his name in Eryximachus,
comes from the word to fight. And the first part of his name,
the " Eryx-" part is the Greek word for a " hiccup" or a " belch" . So that literally his name means " belch fighter."
Perhaps it's not so surprising then that Plato uses the etymology of this name
and builds it into the action of a dialogue. Now Eryximachus was a real man
and that's a real Greek name. But Plato makes use of this
by having something interesting to happen in the dialogue at this point.
Just because of the way the speakers are arranged on the couches
I explained this in a note at the back it really would be Aristophanes's turn
