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Contents: Alcibiades 1Alcibiades 2HipparchusLoversTheagesCharmidesLachesLysis |
Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
Hipparchus: Socrates
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[228d] he proceeded next, with the design of educating those of the countryside, to set up figures of Hermes for them along the roads in the midst of the city and every district town; and then, after selecting from his own wise lore, both learnt from others and discovered for himself, the things that he considered the wisest, he threw these into elegiac form and inscribed them on the figures as verses of his own and testimonies of his wisdom, so that in the first place
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955. OCLC: 384709, 377367, 4601236 ISBN: 0674991842, 0674992210, 0674991834
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