Dialogue

1 Phaedr|    Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced
2 Phaedr|  comparison of Plato’s other writings, as well as the reason of
3 Phaedr|    indication in Plato’s own writings that this was his meaning.
4 Phaedr|    POETICAL necessity in the writings of their favourite author,
5 Phaedr|  this aspect of the Platonic writings. First, we do not immediately
6 Phaedr|      lines in the apocryphal writings of Homer in which the name
7 Phaedr| thinks that even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of
8 Phaedr|     others who have composed writings in the form of political
9 Phaedr| arguments, which leave their writings poor in comparison of them,