The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|        all more conclusive. (See English Translation.) What effect


Charmides
   Part
 2 PreS |        the Dialogues of Plato in English, I had to acknowledge the
 3 PreS |          different lights.~I. An English translation ought to be
 4 PreS |          him will be lost to the English reader. It should read as
 5 PreS |   requirement of all, that it be English. Further, the translation
 6 PreS |   Further, the translation being English, it should also be perfectly
 7 PreS |      reference to the Greek, the English being really the more lucid
 8 PreS |         maintained that ordinary English writing, such as the newspaper
 9 PreS |     diverge most widely from the English idiom. The translator will
10 PreS |     Greek into the more concrete English, or vice versa, and he ought
11 PreS |         is necessary to make the English clear and consecutive.~It
12 PreS |       interests of the Greek and English are often at war with one
13 PreS |          another. In framing the English sentence we are insensibly
14 PreS |         to cramp and overlay the English. We substitute, we compromise,
15 PreS |          of expression which the English language is quite capable
16 PreS |         differences in Greek and English, of which some may be managed
17 PreS |         inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of
18 PreS |     which cannot be expressed in English. And while English is more
19 PreS |  expressed in English. And while English is more dependent than Greek
20 PreS |      equal nicety of emphasis in English as in Greek.~2 The formation
21 PreS |     greatly differs in Greek and English. The lines by which they
22 PreS |         less articulated than in English. For it was long before
23 PreS |  neglected if the harmony of the English language is to be preserved.
24 PreS |        genders. Men and women in English are masculine and feminine,
25 PreS |        in translating Greek into English which cannot altogether
26 PreS |         neuter? The usage of the English language does not admit
27 PreS |    Collective nouns in Greek and English create a similar but lesser
28 PreS |        extended in Greek than in English. Partly the greater variety
29 PreS |          in Greek as in Latin or English, nor in earlier Greek as
30 PreS |          cases the genius of the English language requires that the
31 PreS |        have an awkward effect in English. Frequently the noun has
32 PreS |        And, therefore, while the English translator is limited in
33 PreS |      Plato often goes beyond the English in its imagery: compare
34 PreS |      same Greek word by the same English word. There is no reason
35 PreS |         no kind of literature in English which corresponds to the
36 PreS |       Greek Dialogue; nor is the English language easily adapted
37 PreS |      form. Most of the so-called English Dialogues are but poor imitations
38 PreS |          quality; the mere prose English is slow in lending itself
39 Text |       not be temperate.~Nay (The English reader has to observe that


Cratylus
   Part
40 Intro| Shakespear, Dante, the German or English Bible, Kant and Hegel, are
41 Intro|        analytical languages like English or French, which have lost
42 Intro|   composition of sounds in their English equivalents. Plato also
43 Intro|          mind. Both in Greek and English we find groups of words
44 Intro|        first syllable, as in its English equivalent, has the meaning
45 Intro|          Bible or the Authorized English Translation of the Bible,
46 Intro|    modern languages, for example English or French, possess as great
47 Intro|          future he will find the English language as perfect and
48 Intro|        no reason to suppose that English or French will ever be reduced
49 Intro|    another.~The structure of the English language differs greatly
50 Intro|          toinun and the like. In English the majority of sentences
51 Intro|          Greek and Latin than in English. Generally French, German,
52 Intro|    Generally French, German, and English have an advantage over the
53 Intro|      more accurately observed in English than in either Greek or
54 Intro|       freedom from tautology. No English style is thought tolerable


Euthydemus
   Part
55 Text |         be perfectly rendered in English. Compare Aristot. Soph.


Gorgias
   Part
56 Intro|     foretells no longer await an English statesman, any one who is


Phaedrus
   Part
57 Intro|           In the endless maze of English law is there any ‘dividing


Timaeus
   Part
58 Intro|        so purely abstract as the English word ‘space’ or the Latin ‘