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Contents: CratylusTheaetetusSophistStatesman |
Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Cratylus: Socrates
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[404c] and Hera is a lovely one (eratê), as indeed, Zeus is said to have married her for love. But perhaps the lawgiver had natural phenomena in mind, and called her Hera (Hêra) as a disguise for aêr (air), putting the beginning at the end. You would understand, if you were to repeat the name Hera over and over. And Pherephatta!--How many people fear this name, and also Apollo! I imagine it is because they do not know about correctness of names. You see they change the name to Phersephone and its aspect frightens them. But really the name indicates that the goddess is wise;
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Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
356 [Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des Nominativs.]
Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
3, 1, 10 [Nominative in suspense.]: Pherrephatta de, polloi men kai touto phobountai to onoma
Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. OCLC: 21777623, 26697110, 20083931 ISBN: 0674991850, 0674991370, 0674991826
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