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admire agree Alcibiades allow answer appears argument assertion Athenians Athens beautiful better body CALL Callicles CHÆR Clinias conversation courageous course Crito Ctesippus death desire Dionysiodorus discourse discussion divine doctrine Euthydemus evil expression give Gorgias GREATER HIPPIAS Greek handsome hear Hippocrates Homer Isocrates Justice Kallias kind knowledge laugh Lesser Hippias live Lysias matter means Melians Menexenus moral object opinion oration pain Pericles persons Phædo Phædrus Philebus philosophy phrensy physician Pittacus PLAT Plato Platonic Dialogues pleasure poet Polus praise proceeds Prodicus Protagoras prove punishment question quibbling reason recollect reply rhapsode Rhetoric ridiculous says Socrates seems Simonides Socrates says Socrates's Sophists soul speak speech suppose tagoras talk taught teach teachers tell thing tion truth virtue wisdom wise wish words worse writing wrong wrong-doing wrong-suffering young
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Page 298 - This royal infant (Heaven still move about her!) Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand , thousand blessings , Which time shall bring to ripeness : she shall be (But few now living can behold that goodness) A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed.
Page 130 - ION: What a vivid example you've given me, Socrates! I won't keep secrets from you. Listen, when / tell a sad story, my eyes are full of tears; and when I tell a story that's frightening or awful, my hair stands on end with fear and my heart jumps.
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Page 184 - Lestrade, and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me hear of any fresh, developments of so singular a chain of events.
Page 298 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Page 25 - ... of the earth; and when they were about to bring them into the light of day, they ordered Prometheus and Epimetheus to equip them, and to distribute to them severally their proper qualities. Epimetheus said to Prometheus: "Let me distribute, and do you inspect.
Page 50 - I reckon to be kinsmen and friends and fellowcitizens, by nature and not by law ; for by nature like is akin to like, whereas law is the tyrant of mankind, and often compels us to do many things which are against nature. How great would be the disgrace then, if we, who know the nature of things, and are the wisest of the Hellenes, and...
Page 222 - And wise men tell us, Callicles, that heaven and earth and gods and men are held together by communion and friendship, by orderliness, temperance, and justice; and that is the reason, my friend, why they call the whole of this world by the name of order, not of disorder or dissoluteness.