Dialogue

 1 Intro|           and beauty of the earlier dialogues. The mind of the writer
 2 Intro|       natures. But, as in the later dialogues generally, the play of humour
 3 Intro|        without proof, since the two dialogues have been questioned by
 4 Intro|    discussed by him in the previous dialogues, but nowhere has the spirit
 5 Intro|             courtesy of the earlier dialogues have disappeared. He sees
 6 Intro|           longer, as in the earlier dialogues, the rival of the statesman,
 7 Intro|     politics and dialectic. In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited,
 8 Intro|       lesser features which the two dialogues have in common. The styles
 9 Intro|       fiction are practised in both dialogues, and in both, as well as
10 Intro|           than any of the preceding dialogues, the Statesman seems to
11 Intro|           and order of the Platonic dialogues has been reserved for another
12 Intro| metaphysical originality of the two dialogues: no works at once so good
13 Intro|       resemblances in them to other dialogues of Plato are such as might
14 Intro|          involves the fate of these dialogues, as well as of the two suspected
15 Intro|            narrow the circle of the dialogues, we must admit that they
16 Intro|      Phaedrus and the two suspected dialogues, as that which separates