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Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno
Gorgias: Socrates
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[513a] and so therefore now, whether it is your duty to make yourself as like as possible to the Athenian people, if you intend to win its affection and have great influence in the city: see if this is to your advantage and mine, so that we may not suffer, my distinguished friend, the fate that they say befalls the creatures who would draw down the moon--the hags of Thessaly;1 that our choice of this power in the city may not cost us all that we hold most dear. But if you suppose that anyone in the world can transmit to you such an art as will cause you
1 Socrates alludes to the popular theory that the practice of witchcraft is a serious danger or utter destruction to the practicer.
There are a total of 5 comments on and cross references to this page.
Further comments from Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias:
section 513a: kai nun de ara
section 513a: touth' hora
section 513a: tas Thettalidas
section 513a: 33
section 513a: sun tois philtatois
section 513a: ta philtata
section 513a: hontinoun anthrôpôn
Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
553 [Adverbialsätze der Absicht, durch hina, oft auch hôs, hopôs, ophra (ep. u. lyr.), damit, [heôs ep.] (negativ hina mê, hôs mê u. s. w., auch bloss mê [lat. ne], damit nicht), eingeleitet).]
Cross references from J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras:
V, 313E [CHAPTER V]
Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
7, 518C
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This text is based on the following book(s): 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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