An idea from The Symposium

By dawn the others are asleep or gone. Socrates is still arguing that a good tragic poet can write comedy too, until Aristophanes and Agathon drift off. Then he gets up, takes a bath, and spends the day as usual.

From The Symposium by Plato

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