Charmides
   Part
 1 PreS |      right admixture of words and syllables, and even of letters, should


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|         unions and separations of syllables and letters?~1. The answer
 3 Intro|          ideal forms of things in syllables and letters is not the easy
 4 Intro|        called a calf. Whether the syllables of a name are the same or
 5 Intro|       objects, and form them into syllables; and these again into words,
 6 Intro|            but the several words, syllables, letters are not thought
 7 Intro|         composition of the words, syllables, letters, accents, quantities,
 8 Intro|       manufacture of words out of syllables and letters, like a piece
 9 Text |        each thing into sounds and syllables, and to make and give all
10 Text | legislators will not use the same syllables. For neither does every
11 Text |           of the name in whatever syllables; this or that country makes
12 Text |          of things in letters and syllables.~HERMOGENES: I cannot answer
13 Text |           a king. And whether the syllables of the name are the same
14 Text |        has the same name. Yet the syllables may be disguised until they
15 Text |         cited, differing in their syllables and letters, but having
16 Text |         each thing in letters and syllables, would he not express the
17 Text |     nature of them in letters and syllables in such a manner as to imitate
18 Text |         of the essence is made by syllables and letters; ought we not,
19 Text |     letters; and so we shall form syllables, as they are called, and
20 Text |         they are called, and from syllables make nouns and verbs; and
21 Text |           imitated in letters and syllables, and so find expression,
22 Text |           things into letters and syllables, and impressing on them
23 Text |         In like manner, he who by syllables and letters imitates the
24 Text |          of a thing in letters or syllables; for if you say both, you


The Statesman
   Part
25 Text |     enough in very short and easy syllables, and are able to tell them
26 Text |        STRANGER: Whereas in other syllables they do not recognize them,
27 Text |           and difficult language (syllables) of facts, is again ignorant


Theaetetus
   Part
28 Intro|          letters are unknown, the syllables or combinations are known.
29 Intro|         all the parts. And if the syllables have no parts, then they
30 Intro|          the letters and then the syllables. And in music, the notes,
31 Intro|        Hesiod. Or he may know the syllables of the name Theaetetus,
32 Intro|           out all the letters and syllables of your name in order, still
33 Text |         defined or known; but the syllables or combinations of them
34 Text |            but the combination or syllables known.~THEAETETUS: And was
35 Text |         are the clements; and the syllables, which are the combinations;—
36 Text |           we right in saying that syllables have a definition, but that
37 Text |           in maintaining that the syllables can be known, but not the
38 Text |          letters are not parts of syllables, can you tell me of any
39 Text |          me of any other parts of syllables, which are not letters?~
40 Text |         and indivisible, then the syllables and the letters are alike
41 Text |        argue from the letters and syllables which we know to other simples
42 Text |          certainly known than the syllables, and much more indispensable
43 Text |           yet could only tell the syllables and not the letters of your
44 Text |          consideration of them in syllables or larger combinations of
45 Text |          letters and misspelt the syllables?~SOCRATES: Yes.~THEAETETUS:
46 Text |           that he knows the first syllables of your two names?~THEAETETUS:
47 Text |       second and third and fourth syllables of your name?~THEAETETUS:


Timaeus
   Part
48 Intro|    reasonably be compared even to syllables or first compounds. I am
49 Intro|      sense that they are not even syllables or first compounds. The
50 Text |          man of any sense even to syllables or first compounds. And