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  • Si quis se laesum clamabit, aut conscientiam prodit suam, aut certe metum, Phaedr. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Of all Athenians you have been the most constant resident in the city, which, as you never leave, you may be supposed to love (compare Phaedr.).

    Crito 2006

  • Dialectic, which in the earlier writings of Plato is a revival of the Socratic question and answer applied to definition, is now occupied with classification; there is nothing in which he takes greater delight than in processes of division (compare Phaedr.); he pursues them to a length out of proportion to his main subject, and appears to value them as a dialectical exercise, and for their own sake.

    The Statesman 2006

  • Crito and the proposal of escape is uncertain: Plato could easily have invented far more than that (Phaedr.); and in the selection of

    Crito 2006

  • He is aware of the importance of 'classifying according to nature,' and will try to 'separate the limbs of science without breaking them' (Phaedr.).

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • We can imagine how a great mind like that of Pericles might derive elevation from his intercourse with Anaxagoras (Phaedr.).

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Athens (Phaedr.), and Plato might have learned the Megarian doctrines without settling there.

    Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • But people seem to forget that some things have sensible images, which are readily known, and can be easily pointed out when any one desires to answer an enquirer without any trouble or argument; whereas the greatest and highest truths have no outward image of themselves visible to man, which he who wishes to satisfy the soul of the enquirer can adapt to the eye of sense (compare Phaedr.), and therefore we ought to train ourselves to give and accept a rational account of them; for immaterial things, which are the noblest and greatest, are shown only in thought and idea, and in no other way, and all that we are now saying is said for the sake of them.

    The Statesman 2006

  • The specula however, were polished metalline mirrors: compare Phaedr, 3. 8. 4. with Terence 3. 3. 61.

    The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812

  • a great mind like that of Pericles might derive elevation from his intercourse with Anaxagoras (Phaedr.).

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

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