Dialogue

 1 Menex|         the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only
 2 Menex|      Aristotle omit the name of Plato, and some of them omit the
 3 Menex|       in fathering his works on Plato; and to the forger or imitator,
 4 Menex|          the difference between Plato and his imitators was not
 5 Menex|   Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable
 6 Menex|          That is most certainly Plato’s which Aristotle attributes
 7 Menex|        cites without mentioning Plato, under their own names,
 8 Menex|        the last twenty years of Plato’s life. Nor must we forget
 9 Menex|        dialogues to any one but Plato. And lastly, we may remark
10 Menex|         be fairly attributed to Plato, on the ground of (2) length, (
11 Menex|      have ever been ascribed to Plato, are undoubtedly genuine.
12 Menex|         more celebrated name of Plato, or of some Platonist in
13 Menex|        all times? Certainly not Plato, who exhibits the greatest
14 Menex|       transition? Certainly not Plato, whose earlier writings
15 Menex|         expressly attributed to Plato, but in his citation of
16 Menex|        an undoubted dialogue of Plato. On the other hand, the
17 Menex|        of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration of
18 Menex|        two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the First Alcibiades,
19 Menex|       the disputed dialogues of Plato, has the greatest merit,
20 Menex|         the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of the piece
21 Menex|      the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that Alcibiades
22 Menex|  contemporaries of Socrates and Plato. (1) In the entire absence
23 Menex|        and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off imperceptibly
24 Menex| discourses both of Socrates and Plato may have formed the basis
25 Menex|  different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings of
26 Menex|    which pass under the name of Plato, if we exclude the works
27 Menex|         affects our judgment of Plato, either as a thinker or
28 Menex|         to whom in the Phaedrus Plato shows a strong antipathy,
29 Menex|         and is in the manner of Plato, notwithstanding the anachronism
30 Menex|       the supposed oration. But Plato, like Shakespeare, is careless
31 Menex|       of the Menexenus, whether Plato or not, is evidently intending
32 Menex|        in all that he says, and Plato, both in the Symposium and
33 Menex|      great original genius like Plato might or might not have
34 Menex|      the character of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to
35 Menex|        same kind which occur in Plato, in whom the dramatic element
36 Menex|         is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation only, remains
37 Menex|         wear the look either of Plato or of an extremely skilful