The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|          greatest, and his habitual irony acquires a new meaning and
 2 Intro|             the flavour of Socratic irony in the narrative of Xenophon.~
 3 Intro|        Something of the ‘accustomed irony,’ which may perhaps be expected
 4 Intro|            Also there is a touch of irony in them, which takes them
 5 Intro|       answered in the negative. His irony, his superiority, his audacity, ‘
 6 Intro| friendliness, but also of concealed irony. Towards Anaxagoras, who


Charmides
   Part
 7 Intro|            preserves his accustomed irony to the end; he is in the


Cratylus
   Part
 8 Intro|           longer jest, in which the irony is preserved to the very
 9 Intro|            said about the provoking irony of Socrates, about the parody
10 Intro|             time on his hands.’ The irony of Socrates places him above


Euthydemus
   Part
11 Intro|           The mirth is broader, the irony more sustained, the contrast
12 Intro|             dropped; the accustomed irony of Socrates continues to


Euthyphro
   Part
13 Intro|            As in the Euthydemus the irony is carried on to the end.~
14 Intro|          characters; the inimitable irony, are reasons for believing


The First Alcibiades
   Part
15 Pre  |         imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent than in


Gorgias
   Part
16 Intro|            distance, with a sort of irony which touches with a light
17 Intro|           is met by a corresponding irony on the part of Socrates.
18 Intro|          throwing aside the veil of irony, he makes a speech, but,
19 Intro|       replies in a style of playful irony, that before men can understand
20 Intro|          and character, that is, in irony and antagonism to public
21 Intro|             up: (1) The extravagant irony in the reason which is assigned
22 Intro|           fate of Socrates.~...~The irony of Plato sometimes veils
23 Intro|            unseen.’~The ‘accustomed irony’ of Socrates adds a corollary


Ion
   Part
24 Intro|            the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent
25 Intro|             has no suspicion of the irony of Socrates, eagerly embraces


Lysis
   Part
26 Intro|           secondly, the ‘accustomed irony’ of Socrates, who declares,
27 Intro|             latter by a new sort of irony, which is sometimes adopted


Menexenus
   Part
28 Pre  |         imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent than in


Meno
   Part
29 Intro|          There may be some trace of irony in this curious passage,
30 Intro|              There may be a sort of irony in regarding in this way


Parmenides
   Part
31 Intro|        takes the form of banter and irony, here of illustration.~The
32 Intro|            sometimes with a playful irony, at other times with a sort


Phaedo
   Part
33 Intro|          after ages. With a sort of irony he remembers that a trifling


Phaedrus
   Part
34 Intro|            the world, for sustained irony, for depth of thought, there
35 Intro|             and in a deeper vein of irony than usual. Having improvised
36 Intro|           translate the language of irony into that of plain reflection
37 Intro|            is characteristic of the irony of Socrates to mix up sense


Philebus
   Part
38 Intro|            of any touch of Socratic irony, though here, as in the
39 Intro|       Theaetetus and Cratylus, with irony and contempt. But we have
40 Intro|            an unusual simplicity or irony are of this kind. Such,


Protagoras
   Part
41 Intro|           and argument; also of the irony of Socrates and the self-assertion
42 Intro|        reasons: (1) The transparent irony of the previous interpretations
43 Intro|           the Cratylus, the veil of irony is never withdrawn; and


The Republic
   Book
44 1    |           refuse to answer, and try irony or any other shuffle, in


The Sophist
   Part
45 Intro|             them only in mockery or irony.~The term ‘Sophist’ is one


The Statesman
   Part
46 Intro|        passages which show that the irony of Socrates was a lesson


The Symposium
   Part
47 Intro|          also the touch of Socratic irony, (8) which admits of a wide
48 Intro|                and is a subject for irony, no less than for moral


Theaetetus
   Part
49 Intro|           serious; for the Socratic irony will not allow him to distinguish
50 Intro|             confusion caused by the irony of Socrates, who, if he


Timaeus
   Part
51 Intro|            philosophy too. The same irony which appears in Plato’s
52 Intro|             not wanting in Platonic irony (Greek—a word to the wise). ‘