The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |           using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men,


Euthyphro
   Part
 2 Text |          mean I may explain by an illustration of what I do not mean. The


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 3 Text |        Let me take the hand as an illustration; does not a ring belong
 4 Text |       inscription. Let me take an illustration from sight, which I imagine


Gorgias
   Part
 5 Intro|         by his own fault? Another illustration is afforded by the pauper


Ion
   Part
 6 Intro|      recitations affords a lively illustration of the power which, in the


Laws
   Book
 7 1    |           way. Let me give you an illustration of what I mean:—You may
 8 1    |    subject a little further by an illustration which I will offer you.~
 9 5    |       introducing for the sake of illustration; but what relates to man
10 6    |            we may make use of the illustration notwithstanding:—Suppose


Meno
   Part
11 Intro|         is more important for the illustration of Plato to observe that
12 Text |      works of art. Now this is an illustration of the nature of true opinions:


Parmenides
   Part
13 Intro|    mysteries; by others as a mere illustration, taken at random, of a new
14 Intro|         his position by a counter illustration of Parmenides, who compares
15 Intro|          intended only to give an illustration of method. The second view
16 Intro|         banter and irony, here of illustration.~The attack upon the Ideas
17 Text |        you mean?~I may take as an illustration the case of names: You give


Phaedo
   Part
18 Intro|           and Socrates. I use the illustration, says Socrates, because
19 Intro|          soul, as is shown by the illustration of the weaver and his coat.


Phaedrus
   Part
20 Intro|           not forget order, is an illustration of the higher or true rhetoric.


Philebus
   Part
21 Intro|           the Republic, by way of illustration. On other subjects of which
22 Intro|      happy who, to borrow Plato’s illustration, is leading the life of
23 Intro|         answer the question by an illustration: Purity of white paint consists
24 Text | PROTARCHUS: How do they afford an illustration?~SOCRATES: The sound which
25 Text |          now let us return for an illustration of our principle to the
26 Text |         or letters.~PHILEBUS: The illustration, Protarchus, has assisted
27 Text |    phenomena furnish the simplest illustration?~PROTARCHUS: What phenomena
28 Text |          when I had given you the illustration, you would have let me off,
29 Text |          many similar examples in illustration of the argument about pleasure;


Protagoras
   Part
30 Text |         ask you to imagine, as an illustration, some other pursuit or branch
31 Text |       discussion.~May I employ an illustration? I said. Suppose some one


The Republic
   Book
32 2    |      Adeimantus; but how does the illustration apply to our inquiry? ~I
33 3    |         will break a piece off in illustration of my meaning. You know
34 4    |      opinion. Shall I give you an illustration? ~If you please. ~You know,
35 4    |        his dog bark no more. ~The illustration is perfect, he replied;
36 5    |            Suppose that by way of illustration we were to ask the question
37 7    |          than of its opposite. An illustration will make my meaning clearer:
38 9    |          Let me then offer you an illustration, which may, I think, throw
39 9    |       this subject. ~What is your illustration? ~The case of rich individuals
40 9    |         Yes. ~Shall I give you an illustration of them? ~Let me hear. ~


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
41 Text |      diseases. May we not take an illustration from the artizans?~ALCIBIADES:


The Sophist
   Part
42 Intro|     thinkers affords the readiest illustration of his meaning in conceiving
43 Text |      STRANGER: Let us now take an illustration, which will still more clearly
44 Text |         so; a very true and exact illustration.~STRANGER: And now, if we


The Statesman
   Part
45 Intro|          is partly regarded as an illustration of method, and that analogies
46 Intro|         king or statesman and the illustration of method are connected,
47 Intro|          explain my meaning by an illustration:—Suppose that mankind, indignant
48 Text |       light; and I think that the illustration of music may assist in exhibiting


The Symposium
   Part
49 Intro|           they appear, affords an illustration of the power ascribed to
50 Text |       have other names.’ ‘Give an illustration,’ I said. She answered me


Theaetetus
   Part
51 Intro|       structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points
52 Text |         SOCRATES: Let me offer an illustration: Suppose that a person were
53 Text |        common. Let me give you an illustration of the point at issue:—If


Timaeus
   Part
54 Intro|                With a view to the illustration of the Timaeus I propose
55 Intro|       incapable of distinguishing illustration from argument. Analogy in