Book, Chapter

  1        1, XII   |             that he knows all those of Plato, in the knowledge of the
  2        1, XIII  |                about the subtleties of Plato; and with the Epicureans,
  3        1, XIX   |               forward the dialogues of Plato (as evidence) on these subjects,
  4        1, XIX   |             far greater clearness than Plato, or those other wise men (
  5        1, XXV   |             them. And if the remark of Plato in the Philebus should surprise
  6        1, XXIX  |               still? The Seriphian, in Plato, who reproaches Themistocles
  7        1, XXIX  |               what even Pythagoras, or Plato, or any other wise man in
  8        1, XXXII |               or not the sentiments of Plato, and at any rate quotes
  9        1, XXXII |             opinion of Pythagoras, and Plato, and Empedocles, whom Celsus
 10        1, XXXVII|               as a possible thing that Plato was the son of Amphictione,
 11        1, XL    |               learned philosopher. For Plato says, that it is not an
 12        2, XII   |                it was a charge against Plato, that Aristotle, after being
 13        2, XII   |                and styled the ideas of Plato the merest trifling? And
 14        2, XII   |               would continue thus: Was Plato no longer mighty in dialectics,
 15        2, XII   |           account, are the opinions of Plato false? Or may it not be,
 16        2, XII   |              may it not be, that while Plato is true, as the pupils of
 17        2, XII   |           indeed, is said to have been Plato's pupil for twenty years,
 18        2, XVI   |               shall quote the words of Plato, that Erus the son of Armenius
 19        2, LX    |        existence, of the soul, as even Plato says in his treatise on
 20        3, XIII  |            views. Nay, the opinions of Plato might be chargeable with
 21        3, LXIII |                although taught even by Plato) that "the good and virtuous
 22        3, LXVII |               one was deemed worthy by Plato to recount the discourse
 23        3, LXVIII|              profess the philosophy of Plato, or of any other merely
 24        3, LXXX  |             doctrine of Pythagoras and Plato regarding the soul, that
 25        4, XVII  |               to the metempsychosis of Plato, but agreeably to another
 26        4, XX    |              by a deluge or a fire, as Plato, too, says somewhere to
 27        4, XXXVI |             these are the writers whom Plato expels from his "State"
 28        4, XXXVI |                 Now it is evident that Plato did not regard as "inspired"
 29        4, XXXVI |              better able to judge than Plato (if it be the same Celsus
 30        4, XXXIX |               Eros in the Symposium of Plato, and which are put in the
 31        4, XXXIX |                Symposium. The words of Plato are as follow: "When Aphrodite
 32        4, XXXIX |              and would turn this great Plato into a subject of jest;
 33        4, XXXIX |                discover the meaning of Plato, (they will admire) the
 34        4, XXXIX |           occurring in the writings of Plato, because of the mention
 35        4, XXXIX |            very clear, indeed, whether Plato fell in with these stories
 36        4, XXXIX |          explaining either the myth of Plato, or the story of the serpent
 37        4, XL    |               far transcending that of Plato) of the souls losing its
 38        4, XLVIII|           approving of the language of Plato in the Philebus, who would
 39        4, L     |             not without propriety does Plato expel from his state all
 40        4, LI    |    surpassingly excellent expounder of Plato, and who held a foremost
 41        4, LVI   |              pressed, he should desert Plato, who makes the soul arise
 42        4, LXII  |               in the Theoetetus, where Plato makes Socrates say: "It
 43        4, LXII  |              me not to have understood Plato correctly, although professing
 44        4, LXII  |            harmony with the opinion of Plato, because of the language
 45        4, LXXXIX|           Pythagoras, and Socrates and Plato! We ought then to go to
 46        4, XCVII |              to God than Socrates, and Plato, and Pythagoras, and Pherecydes,
 47        4, XCVII |          Pythagoras, and Socrates, and Plato, and of philosophers in
 48        5, VII   |            First God, the followers of Plato the Second, and some of
 49        5, XXI   |                Pythagoras, too, and of Plato, although they appear to
 50        5, XLIII |               heavenly city which even Plato would have sought to describe;
 51        5, XLVII |          according to the followers of Plato, who hold that righteousness
 52        5, XLVII |          different thing still that of Plato, who maintains that virtue
 53        6, I     |              of passages, chiefly from Plato, and has placed alongside
 54        6, II    |        beautiful and polished style of Plato, and those who have written
 55        6, II    |                indeed, to observe that Plato is found only in the hands
 56        6, II    |              remarks, not to disparage Plato (for the great world of
 57        6, III   |       understanding them. Suppose that Plato, for example, the son of
 58        6, V     |            between the fine phrases of Plato respecting the "chief good,"
 59        6, V     |            truth as it is contained in Plato concerning this subject
 60        6, VI    |              quotes from an epistle of Plato another statement to the
 61        6, VI    |          briefly, viz., whether or not Plato were acquainted with any
 62        6, VI    |              that they saw better than Plato (by means of the intelligence
 63        6, VII   |                are older not only than Plato, but even than Homer and
 64        6, VII   |                because they understood Plato imperfectly, as Celsus imagines.
 65        6, VII   |           Jesus, who were younger than Plato, say whether it is not on
 66        6, VII   |       misunderstanding the language of Plato in his Epistles, have expressed
 67        6, VII   |        produces another quotation from Plato, in which he asserts that
 68        6, VIII  |               are true." "Yet although Plato predicted these things,
 69        6, VIII  |               say, that with regard to Plato, it is Aristander, I think,
 70        6, VIII  |              other of the followers of Plato who, in their lives of their
 71        6, VIII  |                that what is related of Plato and Socrates belongs to
 72        6, VIII  |               Nay, the third eye which Plato saw that he himself possessed,
 73        6, VIII  |          quotes many of the sayings of Plato, is, I think, intentionally
 74        6, VIII  |                God which is related in Plato's Epistle to Hermeas and
 75        6, VIII  |               to Hermeas and Coriscus. Plato's words are as follows: "
 76        6, IX    |               quotes another saying of Plato to the following effect: "
 77        6, IX    |          correspond with the "name" of Plato; and the second after John,
 78        6, IX    |           corresponds to the "word" of Plato. Plato terms the third "
 79        6, IX    |                to the "word" of Plato. Plato terms the third "image;"
 80        6, X     |                continues: "You see how Plato, although maintaining that (
 81        6, X     |           which has been quoted, that "Plato is not guilty of boasting
 82        6, X     |             such assertions, that even Plato is guilty of boasting, when
 83        6, X     |            speaking in the dialogue of Plato, why should not he who investigates
 84        6, XII   |          Apology of Socrates, of which Plato was the author: "For I,
 85        6, XII   |                also the following from Plato's letter to Hermeas, and
 86        6, XIII  |               merely to Heraclitus and Plato. For before these individuals
 87        6, XV    |            borrowed from some words of Plato imperfectly understood,
 88        6, XV    |                writers much older than Plato the following words occur
 89        6, XV    |               in a greater degree than Plato's "humble and becomingly
 90        6, XVI   |              manifestly proceeded from Plato, and that Jesus perverted
 91        6, XVI   |                regarding Him, had read Plato, and being pleased with
 92        6, XVII  |               he quotes the sayings of Plato, both from his Epistles
 93        6, XVII  |              plausible declarations of Plato, which did not however,
 94        6, XVIII |        reverence than those sayings of Plato which Celsus admires. Now
 95        6, XVIII |                 Now the declaration of Plato, quoted by Celsus, runs
 96        6, XIX   |             misunderstood the words of Plato, loudly boast of a 'super-celestial'
 97        6, XIX   |            have borrowed anything from Plato, because they were older
 98        6, XIX   |               do not indeed, deny that Plato learned from certain Hebrews
 99        6, XXI   |            agreeably to the opinion of Plato, asserts that souls can
100        6, XXI   |               to the same truths which Plato had in view, or to something
101        6, XXII  | inappropriately, not only the words of Plato; but, dissatisfied even
102        6, XXVI  |               profess the doctrines of Plato to offer a defence of Epicurus
103        6, XLVII |              passage in the letters of Plato, to which we referred in
104        6, XLVII |             too should be compelled by Plato, whom he often mentions
105        7, XXVIII|               lead a most quiet life.' Plato also, who believed in the
106        7, XXVIII|              divine," and chiefly from Plato, who in his Phaedon discourses
107        7, XXX   |              me also that the fancy of Plato, that those stones which
108        7, XXX   |              reverence the teaching of Plato, explain this myth of his
109        7, XXX   |               which, as we conjecture, Plato has borrowed, will be explained
110        7, XXX   |                has not been taken from Plato or any of the Greeks, but
111        7, XXXI  |              passage in the Phaedon of Plato, Celsus says: "It is not
112        7, XXXI  |              understand the meaning of Plato's words, when he says that
113        7, XXXI  |         opportunity the explanation of Plato's idea, we also think that
114        7, XLII  |               Celsus next refers us to Plato as to a more effective teacher
115        7, XLII  |             way of truth, and how well Plato knew that it was impossible
116        7, XLII  |                impure." These words of Plato are noble and admirable;
117        7, XLII  |             truths which, according to Plato, it would be impossible
118        7, XLII  |                had found them himself. Plato may say that "it is a hard
119        7, XLII  |          although if it were true that Plato or any other of the Greeks
120        7, XLIII |               XLIII.~Observe that when Plato says, that "after having
121        7, XLIII |                he had just quoted from Plato, immediately gives God the
122        7, LVIII |         reported in a coarser way. For Plato introduces Socrates conversing
123        7, LVIII |               suffered from him.' Thus Plato speaks; and he adds, 'Consider,
124        7, LVIII |             Such are the sentiments of Plato, and indeed they were held
125        7, LIX   |            made known to the Greeks by Plato or any of the wise men of
126        7, LX    |               nourished. See, then, if Plato and the wise men among the
127        7, LXI   |               effect than the words of Plato in the Crito; for the latter