Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro| academies, do we ever attempt to invent new words or to alter the


Critias
   Part
 2 Intro|         better than Plato how to invent ‘a noble lie.’ Observe (


Euthydemus
   Part
 3 Intro|          matter of knowledge, or invent laws of thought, or imagine
 4 Intro|         should raise problems or invent forms of thought which add


Euthyphro
   Part
 5 Text |        maker of gods, and that I invent new gods and deny the existence


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 6 Pre  |    earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or leading thought


Gorgias
   Part
 7 Text |         artificial law, which we invent and impose upon our fellows,


Laws
   Book
 8 2    |        the traditional forms and invent new ones. To this day, no
 9 2    |        for their good, could not invent a more useful lie than this,
10 12   |     every sort of virtue. Let us invent a mode of creating them,


Menexenus
   Part
11 Pre  |    earlier Platonic writings, to invent. The motive or leading thought


Parmenides
   Part
12 Intro|        You, Socrates, can easily invent Egyptian tales or anything


Phaedo
   Part
13 Intro|        easier to improve than to invent, and that in religion especially
14 Text |       together words, but should invent stories, and that I have


Phaedrus
   Part
15 Intro|         some of us for trying to invent ‘a new shudder’ instead
16 Intro|    reflect how easily Plato can ‘invent Egyptians or anything else,’
17 Intro|         Why did a thousand years invent nothing better than Sibylline
18 Text |          to be envied who has to invent them; much labour and ingenuity
19 Text |          to add up or excuses to invent; and being well rid of all
20 Text |    cowardice, and will therefore invent some other lie which his
21 Text |         Socrates, you can easily invent tales of Egypt, or of any


The Republic
   Book
22 4    |         Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser
23 5    |       replied. ~We shall have to invent some ingenious kind of lots
24 8    |          ruin of timocracy; they invent illegal modes of expenditure;


The Statesman
   Part
25 Text |          them; for if you try to invent names for them, you will


The Symposium
   Part
26 Text |         one or other of them may invent an excuse by the way (Iliad).~


Timaeus
   Part
27 Intro|    struggle. But he is unable to invent such a narrative himself;
28 Intro|         it; for he could easily ‘invent Egyptian or any other tales’ (