Dialogue

 1 Menex|         any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious.
 2 Menex|         date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him.
 3 Menex|           to the enquiry about the writings of a particular author,
 4 Menex|         the genuineness of ancient writings are the following: Shorter
 5 Menex|          some affinity to spurious writings can be detected, or which
 6 Menex|     general spirit of the Platonic writings. But the testimony of Aristotle
 7 Menex|       degrees of importance. Those writings which he cites without mentioning
 8 Menex|          supposed by him to be the writings of another, although in
 9 Menex|        citations from the Platonic writings he never attributes any
10 Menex|       remark that one or two great writings, such as the Parmenides
11 Menex|          the general spirit of his writings. Indeed the greater part
12 Menex|     nineteen-twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed
13 Menex|          or they may have been the writings of some contemporary transferred
14 Menex|           of words, if his earlier writings are compared with his later
15 Menex|           not Plato, whose earlier writings are separated from his later
16 Menex|          which separates his later writings from Aristotle.~The dialogues
17 Menex|     genuineness among the Platonic writings, are the Lesser Hippias,
18 Menex|            of the earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or
19 Menex|            comparison of the other writings of Plato. The funeral oration
20 Menex|  Parmenides.~To these two doubtful writings of Plato I have added the
21 Menex|            compared to the earlier writings of Plato. The motive of
22 Menex|          existence of contemporary writings bearing the name of Alcibiades,
23 Menex|       between genuine and spurious writings of Plato. They fade off
24 Menex|         the basis of semi-Platonic writings; some of them may be of
25 Menex|         them is different. But the writings of Plato, unlike the writings
26 Menex|      writings of Plato, unlike the writings of Aristotle, seem never
27 Menex|        have been confused with the writings of his disciples: this was
28 Menex|      object of these semi-Platonic writings require more careful study
29 Menex|           another, and with forged writings in general, than they have
30 Menex|            a twentieth part of the writings which pass under the name
31 Menex| Alexandrian catalogues of Platonic writings.~