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    Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno

    Gorgias: Callicles

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    [494e] Socrates

    Is it so if he only wants to scratch his head? Or what more am I to ask you? See, Callicles, what your answer will be, if you are asked everything in succession that links on to that statement; and the culmination of the case, as stated--the life of catamites--is not that awful, shameful, and wretched? Or will you dare to assert that these are happy if they can freely indulge their wants?

    Callicles

    Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to lead the discussion into such topics?

    Socrates

    What, is it I who am leading it there, noble sir, or the person who says outright that those who enjoy themselves,


    There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias:
    section 494e: 16
    section 494e: ta echomena
    section 494e: kephalaion
    section 494e: houtos
    section 494e: eis toiauta agôn
    section 494e: anedên
    section 494e: houtô

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    426 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Lokativs.]

    Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
    * [Commentary]

    Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
    6, 504B

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
    OCLC: 384709, 377367
    ISBN: 0674991834, 0674991842

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