Euthydemus
   Part
 1 Text |            he proceeded in a lofty strain to the following effect:
 2 Text |         delivered yourself of this strain, said Dionysodorus, will


Gorgias
   Part
 3 Intro|          the sensual; he sings the strain of love in the latest fashion;


Ion
   Part
 4 Text |         but when any one recites a strain of Homer you wake up in
 5 Text |           quick perception of that strain only which is appropriated


Laws
   Book
 6 1    |       blame war in this high–flown strain, whom are you praising or
 7 2    |         the citizens speak in this strain, and I would inflict the
 8 2    |            all.~Athenian. And what strain will they sing, and what
 9 2    |           muse will they hymn? The strain should clearly be one suitable
10 2    |      Certainly.~Athenian. And what strain is suitable for heroes?
11 2    |           Shall they sing a choric strain?~Cleinias. Truly, Stranger,
12 2    |       Crete and Lacedaemon know no strain other than that which we
13 2    |            if there be indeed some strain of song more beautiful than
14 4    |    beginnings intended to help the strain which is to be performed;
15 4    |            of the truer and higher strain of law and politics, no
16 7    |         fancies. Now the irregular strain of music is always made
17 8    |          the laws, not even if his strain be sweeter than the songs


Meno
   Part
18 Text |           should reply in a milder strain and more in the dialectician’


Parmenides
   Part
19 Intro|     entirely different forms, is a strain of art beyond most of us.’ ‘
20 Text |           much the same. This is a strain of art beyond the reach


Phaedrus
   Part
21 Text |        hymn in measured and solemn strain.~PHAEDRUS: I know that I


The Republic
   Book
22 2    |           Homer has a very similar strain; for he speaks of one whose
23 2    |            wicked there is another strain; they bury them in a slough
24 2    |            this been the universal strain, had you sought to persuade
25 2    |            himself who uttered the strain, he who was present at the
26 3    |        True. ~Another and a nobler strain must be composed and sung
27 3    |            I ask you to leave; the strain of necessity and the strain
28 3    |        strain of necessity and the strain of freedom, the strain of
29 3    |         the strain of freedom, the strain of the unfortunate and the
30 3    |            the unfortunate and the strain of the fortunate, the strain
31 3    |       strain of the fortunate, the strain of courage, and the strain
32 3    |         strain of courage, and the strain of temperance; these, I
33 6    |         him, and answer in another strain. Who can be at enmity with
34 7    |          the prelude to the actual strain which we have to learn?
35 7    |            dialectic. This is that strain which is of the intellect
36 7    |           or preamble to the chief strain, and describe that in like
37 8    |         talk privately in the same strain to the son; and if they


The Sophist
   Part
38 Intro|     Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally passionate:—What!
39 Intro|        strife, but adopt a gentler strain, and speak of alternation
40 Text |            rather a light and easy strain.~THEAETETUS: How?~STRANGER:


The Statesman
   Part
41 Text |         not often praise the quiet strain of action also?~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
   Part
42 Intro|       every man follow, chanting a strain of love. Such is the discourse,
43 Intro|          thought or feeling to the strain which he hears. The Symposium
44 Intro|           is conceived in a higher strain, and receives the real,
45 Text |            But when I hear another strain, especially that of you
46 Text |          and joining in that sweet strain with which love charms the
47 Text |            Farewell then to such a strain: for I do not praise in


Theaetetus
   Part
48 Intro| consideration. The greater or less strain upon the nerves of the eye
49 Text |          in your former hesitating strain, for if we are bold we shall


Timaeus
   Part
50 Text |           of you to proceed to the strain?~TIMAEUS: Let me tell you
51 Text |        hold, and are parted by the strain of existence, they in turn