Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text |            The meaning of sumpheron (expedient) I think that you may discover
 2 Text |           agathon (good), sumpheron (expedient), euporon (plenteous), the


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 3 Intro|              just, but about what is expedient; and he asserts that the
 4 Intro|          admit that the just and the expedient coincide. Alcibiades is
 5 Intro|          they are concerned with the expedient.~However, he is no worse
 6 Text |        course of action will be most expedient; for there is a difference
 7 Text |       granting that the just and the expedient are ever so much opposed,
 8 Text |        imagine that you know what is expedient for mankind, or why a thing
 9 Text |           mankind, or why a thing is expedient?~ALCIBIADES: Why not, Socrates?—
10 Text |           you know the nature of the expedient, and who is your teacher?
11 Text |            to show that you know the expedient, either because you learned
12 Text |            your knowledge of what is expedient or what is not expedient
13 Text |             expedient or what is not expedient for the Athenian people,
14 Text |          that the just is not always expedient.~ALCIBIADES: You take liberties,
15 Text |          words, that the just is the expedient, coming from your own lips,
16 Text |           that the just is sometimes expedient and sometimes not?~ALCIBIADES:
17 Text |            SOCRATES: And is the good expedient or not?~ALCIBIADES: Expedient.~
18 Text |        expedient or not?~ALCIBIADES: Expedient.~SOCRATES: Do you remember
19 Text |            SOCRATES: And the good is expedient?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
20 Text |              Alcibiades, the just is expedient?~ALCIBIADES: I should infer
21 Text |              just is the same as the expedient, are you not (let me ask)
22 Text |        dishonourable, good and evil, expedient and inexpedient, the reason
23 Text |        honourable, the good, and the expedient?~ALCIBIADES: There cannot


Gorgias
   Part
24 Intro|           what is right, but what is expedient. The only measures of which


Laws
   Book
25 5    |           part of his legislation is expedient and what will arouse opposition;
26 6    | circumstances, is both necessary and expedient.~Cleinias. What is it?~Athenian.
27 7    |            much time for sleep as is expedient for health; and much sleep


Protagoras
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28 Text |            is the good that which is expedient for man?~Yes, indeed, he
29 Text |              man, and some which are expedient; and some which are neither
30 Text |           and some which are neither expedient nor inexpedient for man,


The Symposium
   Part
31 Intro|             At last Zeus hit upon an expedient. Let us cut them in two,


Theaetetus
   Part
32 Intro|              of the future; and ‘the expedient,’ if not ‘the just and true,’
33 Intro|             the thing which seems is expedient to every one. But this begins
34 Intro|            State were always good or expedient, although this may be the
35 Intro|           intention of them. For the expedient has to do with the future,
36 Intro|              it.~And therefore it is expedient once more to review the
37 Text |        determining what is or is not expedient for the community one state
38 Text |             in the belief that it is expedient will always be really expedient.
39 Text |      expedient will always be really expedient. But in the other case,
40 Text |           the term used, the good or expedient is the aim of legislation,
41 Text |              under which the good or expedient falls. That whole class