PREFACE. HE former volume of "the Platonic Dialogues THE for English Readers" has met with a reception so favourable as to induce me to offer to the public a similar version of another group of those Dialogues. The Dialogues I now publish I term "the Antisophist Dialogues," inasmuch as they are mainly occupied with discussions in which persons who have been called "Sophists" by Plato and by his commentators, are represented as refuted, perplexed, or silenced. Of such persons there will be found in the following pages, Protagoras, Prodicus, Hippias, Gorgias, Polus, Callicles, Ion, Euthydemus, Dionysiodorus, and Thrasymachus, who is, however, much more prominent in the |