Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|         the mouth into shape;’ ‘Tales and falsehoods have generally
 2 Intro|      person should conceive the tales of mythology to mean only
 3 Text |     that he is the contriver of tales or speeches, you may rightly
 4 Text |        the goat of tragedy; for tales and falsehoods have generally


Euthyphro
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 5 Intro| Socrates has a dislike to these tales of mythology, and he fancies
 6 Intro|        gods. These are the very tales which Socrates cannot abide;
 7 Text |        with them. Are all these tales of the gods true, Euthyphro?~


Gorgias
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 8 Text | persuade you, and, however many tales I rehearse to you, do you
 9 Text |         in your contemning such tales, if by searching we could


Laws
   Book
10 2    |      and also innumerable other tales.~Cleinias. What is that
11 2    |         word in their songs and tales and discourses all their
12 6    |      and their whole house—such tales are well known.~Megillus.
13 8    |      into the belief of this by tales and sayings and songs?~Cleinias.
14 9    |     although they are most true tales, they work on such souls
15 10   |   Athenian. At Athens there are tales preserved in writing which
16 10   |        who will not believe the tales which they have heard as
17 11   |      about which there are many tales and traditions, long indeed,
18 12   |         themselves do. For such tales are untrue and improbable;


Lysis
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19 Text |     single horses—these are the tales which he composes and repeats.
20 Text |      are the sort of old wives’ tales which he sings and recites


Parmenides
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21 Intro|      can easily invent Egyptian tales or anything else,’ Phaedrus);


Phaedrus
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22 Text |      will be modest and tell no tales; nor to those who care about
23 Text | Socrates, you can easily invent tales of Egypt, or of any other


Protagoras
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24 Text |      many admonitions, and many tales, and praises, and encomia


The Republic
   Book
25 1    |        he never had before; the tales of a world below and the
26 2    |     children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by
27 2    |      fashion the mind with such tales, even more fondly than they
28 2    |     must be discarded. ~Of what tales are you speaking? he said. ~
29 2    |         the gods in Homer-these tales must not be admitted into
30 2    |         most important that the tales which the young first hear
31 2    |         to be found and of what tales are you speaking-how shall
32 2    |         poets should cast their tales, and the limits which must
33 2    |        by them, but to make the tales is not their business. ~
34 2    |         preventive; also in the tales of mythology, of which we
35 3    |     principles of theology-some tales are to be told, and others
36 3    |      narrators of this class of tales as well as over the others,
37 3    |       let us put an end to such tales, lest they engender laxity
38 7    |  naturally deem them to be idle tales, for they see no sort of
39 10   |      what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped
40 10   |      you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to


The Sophist
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41 Intro|         of them to mythological tales, and the fear of the Eleatic
42 Intro|   Parmenides and others told us tales about the origin of the


The Statesman
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43 Intro|   mankind is prone to doubt the tales of old. You have heard what
44 Intro|         give credibility to his tales, he is not disposed to insist


Timaeus
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45 Intro|     from them, he told them the tales of Phoroneus and Niobe,
46 Intro|        Testament; also from the tales of missionaries and the
47 Intro|         false—there are similar tales about columns set up ‘by
48 Intro|    invent Egyptian or any other tales’ (Phaedrus). Are not the
49 Text |     they are no better than the tales of children. In the first