The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |        earnest when he is only in jest, and is so eager to bring


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|           and can we separate his jest from his earnest?—Sunt bona,
 3 Intro|        that Socrates is partly in jest and partly in earnest. He
 4 Intro|     strongly of the Phaedrus. The jest is a long one, extending
 5 Intro|      Euthydemus is a still longer jest, in which the irony is preserved
 6 Intro|           is applied to them; the jest about the fifty-drachma


Euthydemus
   Part
 7 Intro|           us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious
 8 Text |           become wise, are you in jest or in real earnest?~I was
 9 Text |           and that this made them jest and play, and being under


Gorgias
   Part
10 Intro|            From this confusion of jest and earnest, we may now
11 Text |        you in earnest, or only in jest? For if you are in earnest,
12 Text |        beg you, Callicles, not to jest, or to imagine that I am


Ion
   Part
13 Intro|        Dialogues, is a mixture of jest and earnest, in which no


Laws
   Book
14 3    |           and I say once more, in jest if you like, or in earnest
15 5    |         all these things, both in jest and earnest.~Enough has
16 6    |      command, and we ought not to jest with them, whether they
17 10   |          repeated by them both in jest and earnest, like charms,
18 11   |           draw the distinction of jest and earnest, and allow a
19 11   |           make use of ridicule in jest and without anger about
20 11   |           be without anger and in jest; in anger and in serious
21 12   |         to do anything, either in jest or earnest, of his own motion,


Meno
   Part
22 Text |           I may venture to make a jest upon you, you seem to me


Phaedo
   Part
23 Intro|           prosperous (compare the jest in the Euthydemus), the


Phaedrus
   Part
24 Intro|   speculations. Socrates, half in jest and to satisfy his own wild
25 Intro|       their author.~So, partly in jest but also ‘with a certain
26 Intro|  philosophy, and is turning their jest into a sort of earnest. (


Philebus
   Part
27 Text |         had answered.~SOCRATES: A jest is sometimes refreshing,


The Republic
   Book
28 3    |         of such an art, unless in jest, to be beneath him, and
29 5    |          question is to be put in jest or in earnest, let us come
30 5    |      conversely? ~That would be a jest, he said. ~Yes, I said,
31 5    |          he said. ~Yes, I said, a jest; and why? because we never
32 7    |          perhaps, in thus turning jest into earnest I am equally
33 8    |       solemn mockery, to play and jest with us as if we were children,


The Sophist
   Part
34 Intro| commencement, by a characteristic jest about the statesman and
35 Intro|    philosopher. Socrates, half in jest, half in earnest, declares
36 Intro|       pence—this would be a great jest; but not greater than if
37 Intro|            For all imitation is a jest, and the most graceful form
38 Intro|         the most graceful form of jest. Now the painter is a man
39 Text |        THEAETETUS: That must be a jest.~STRANGER: And when a man
40 Text |         short time, is not that a jest?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
41 Text |      artistic or graceful form of jest than imitation?~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
   Part
42 Intro|        There is another excellent jest which I spy in the two remaining
43 Text |         would make another famous jest.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What is


The Symposium
   Part
44 Intro|         appearing he and the host jest a little; the question is
45 Intro|       naturally does Plato mingle jest and earnest, truth and opinion
46 Intro|    mixture of earnestness in this jest; three serious principles
47 Intro|         in the Symposium) half in jest, yet ‘with a certain degree


Theaetetus
   Part
48 Intro|          preparation for a biting jest); for those who reap the
49 Intro|          truly, which is a famous jest. And if he admits that they
50 Intro|      illustrate my meaning by the jest of the witty maid-servant,
51 Text |        but what if he was only in jest?~SOCRATES: Nay, Theodorus
52 Text |        meaning, Theodorus, by the jest which the clever witty Thracian
53 Text |        before his feet. This is a jest which is equally applicable
54 Text |        before his eyes, he is the jest, not only of Thracian handmaids