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Contents: ParmenidesPhilebusSymposiumPhaedrus |
Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Phaedrus: Socrates
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[237b] that his friend whom he has hitherto considered wise, may seem to him wiser still. Now there was once upon a time a boy, or rather a stripling, of great beauty: and he had many lovers. And among these was one of peculiar craftiness, who was as much in love with the boy as anyone, but had made him believe that he was not in love; and once in wooing him, he tried to persuade him of this very thing, that favors ought to be granted rather to the non-lover than to the lover; and his words were as follows:-- There is only one way, dear boy, for those to begin who
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Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
423 [Der eigentliche Dativ.]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. OCLC: 20083931, 19433521, 377367, 21777623 ISBN: 0674990404, 0674991842, 0674991850, 0674991826
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