Polus

I have endeavoured to preserve the play on the word Polus, altering the meaning as little as the necessities of translation would allow.

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

The Serpent is said to lie stretched out between their tails, and in it there is a star, called Polus, shining near the head of the Greater

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

SOCRATES: Yes, indeed, Polus, that is my doctrine; the men and women who are gentle and good are also happy, as I maintain, and the unjust and evil are miserable.

Gorgias 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

For if the body presided over itself, and were not under the guidance of the soul, and the soul did not discern and discriminate between cookery and medicine, but the body was made the judge of them, and the rule of judgment was the bodily delight which was given by them, then the word of Anaxagoras, that word with which you, friend Polus, are so well acquainted, would prevail far and wide:

Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments 2010

Polus, for to you I am now addressing myself, because it aims at pleasure without any thought of the best.

Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments 2010

Polus finds this position “absurd” (473a1), and challenges Socrates to take a poll of all present to confirm the point.

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

All this is just too much for Gorgias 'student Polus, whose angry intervention marks the second and much more bitter stage of the dialogue (461b3).

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

Socrates 'ensuing argument with Polus is complicated and long.

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

In The Gorgias, he tells a friend, "Polus, I am not a political man."

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

But if we, Polus, are right, do you see what follows, or do we draw out the consequences in form?

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