Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text |         of that which the vocal imitator names or imitates?~HERMOGENES:
 2 Text |       imitators. What will this imitator be called?~HERMOGENES: I
 3 Text |        them, and where does the imitator begin? Imitation of the


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 4 Pre  |     Plato; and to the forger or imitator, the ‘literary hack’ of
 5 Pre  | anything beyond the power of an imitator, who was also a careful


Gorgias
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 6 Intro|      will befall him. ‘But this imitator of the tyrant,’ rejoins
 7 Text |    nature like them, and not an imitator only. He, then, who will


Menexenus
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 8 Pre  |     Plato; and to the forger or imitator, the ‘literary hack’ of
 9 Pre  | anything beyond the power of an imitator, who was also a careful
10 Intro|         of an extremely skilful imitator. The excellence of the forgery


Phaedrus
   Part
11 Intro|       the sixth, into a poet or imitator; the seventh, into a husbandman


The Republic
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12 3    |       at the same time to be an imitator and imitate many other parts
13 3    |   prefer only to admit the pure imitator of virtue. ~Yes, I said,
14 10   |     offered we inquire who this imitator is? ~If you please. Well,
15 10   |     fairly designate him as the imitator of that which the others
16 10   |      the descent from nature an imitator? ~Certainly, he said. ~And
17 10   |       And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, therefore, like all
18 10   |       to be so. ~Then about the imitator we are agreed. And what
19 10   |        Of appearance. ~Then the imitator, I said, is a long way off
20 10   |      Here is another point: The imitator or maker of the image knows
21 10   | knowledge? ~True. ~But will the imitator have either? Will he know
22 10   |     pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning


The Sophist
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23 Intro|        knowledge; he is only an imitator, or image-maker.~And now,
24 Intro|   science or knowledge. Now the imitator, who has only opinion, may
25 Intro|        may be either the simple imitator, who thinks that he knows,
26 Text |      not visibly a magician and imitator of true being; or are we
27 Text |       should be described as an imitator—to be distinguished from
28 Text |       Let us, then, examine our imitator of appearance, and see whether
29 Text |        regard one as the simple imitator—the other as the dissembling
30 Text |         dissembling or ironical imitator?~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
31 Text |    ignorant; but since he is an imitator of the wise he will have
32 Text |       self-contradiction, is an imitator of appearance, and is separated


The Statesman
   Part
33 Intro|          and not in those of an imitator, being too subtle and minute


The Symposium
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34 Intro|       more characteristic of an imitator than of an original writer.