The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|      present a spectacle of weeping children, although he, too, is not
  2 Text |             who began when you were children, and took possession of
  3 Text |             and how he produced his children in court, which was a moving


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|   approaches more nearly to that of children or animals. The philosophers
  5 Intro|             and after the manner of children were more given to express
  6 Intro|             the first utterances of children, probably partook of the
  7 Intro|           or the stammering lips of children, and to have attained by
  8 Intro|       musical notes’), of music, of children learning to speak, of barbarous
  9 Intro|   inexhaustible. The comparisons of children learning to speak, of barbarous
 10 Intro|            is greatest, as in young children and in the infancy of nations.~
 11 Intro|            are alive as well as the children, and that all the preceding
 12 Intro|       writings. The speech of young children, except in so far as they


Critias
    Part
 13 Intro|             settled a brave race of children of the soil, and taught
 14 Intro|       bequeathed unaltered to their children’s children. In summer time
 15 Intro|       unaltered to their children’s children. In summer time the south
 16 Intro|        Atlantis, and there he begat children whose mother was a mortal.
 17 Intro|             five pairs of twin male children. The eldest was Atlas, and
 18 Intro|          the community of wives and children.~It is singular that Plato
 19 Text |          there they implanted brave children of the soil, and put into
 20 Text |             enough to give to their children; but the virtues and the
 21 Text |           they themselves and their children lacked for many generations
 22 Text |             in which they and their children’s children grew old, and
 23 Text |           they and their children’s children grew old, and they handed
 24 Text |           island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal woman, and settled
 25 Text |             five pairs of twin male children; and dividing the island


Crito
    Part
 26 Intro|            think of his duty to his children, and not play into the hands
 27 Intro|         reputation or injury to his children should be dismissed: the
 28 Intro|            decent. And how will his children be the gainers if he takes
 29 Intro|      justice first, and of life and children afterwards. He may now depart
 30 Text |          you are deserting your own children; for you might bring them
 31 Text |            you. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling
 32 Text |         deaths, frightening us like children with hobgoblin terrors (
 33 Text |             duty of educating one’s children, are, I fear, only the doctrines
 34 Text |          that we are no better than children? Or, in spite of the opinion
 35 Text |            nurture and education of children, in which you also were
 36 Text |            this city you begat your children, which is a proof of your
 37 Text |           live for the sake of your children—you want to bring them up
 38 Text |           up. Think not of life and children first, and of justice afterwards,


Euthydemus
    Part
 39 Intro|          about the education of his children, one of whom is growing
 40 Text |           poor figure; we were like children after larks, always on the
 41 Text |              he said.~When you were children, and at your birth?~They
 42 Text |             our anxieties about our children:—in the first place, about


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 43 Text |       better for men as well as for children? (Compare Arist. Pol.)~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 44 Intro|         audience of men, women, and children. And the orators are very
 45 Intro|            assembly as if they were children.~Callicles replies, that
 46 Intro|           who is tried by a jury of children. He cannot say that he has
 47 Intro|          whether he is dealing with children in politics, or with full-grown
 48 Intro|          question: What use did the children of Cronos make of their
 49 Intro|             have no place among the children of Cronos any more than
 50 Text |          ourselves with friends and children is, that when we get old
 51 Text |         into a competition in which children were the judges, or men
 52 Text |          who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best
 53 Text |            having seen his wife and children suffer the like, is at last
 54 Text |          his parents or friends, or children or country; but may be of
 55 Text |          those who lisp and imitate children. For I love to see a little
 56 Text |            crowd of men, women, and children, freemen and slaves. And
 57 Text |             with the people as with children, and trying to amuse them,
 58 Text |          passenger and his wife and children and goods, and safely disembarked


Laches
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 59 Intro|             are resolved that their children shall have more care taken
 60 Intro|             education of a friend’s children, he would consult the one
 61 Intro|             be denied to animals or children, because they do not know
 62 Text |             when they are no longer children, but to begin at once and
 63 Text |           and careless of their own children and their private concerns.
 64 Text |            of your possessions? For children are your riches; and upon
 65 Text |            the risk of spoiling the children of friends, and thereby
 66 Text |       induced to take charge of our children and of yours; and then they
 67 Text |              especially as you have children who, like our own, are nearly
 68 Text |           that I should call little children courageous, which fear no
 69 Text |          many men, many women, many children, many animals. And you,
 70 Text |        about the education of their children; but, as I said at first,


Laws
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 71 1    |        procreation and education of children, both male and female; the
 72 1    |             should play at building children’s houses; he who is to be
 73 1    |             endeavour to direct the children’s inclinations and pleasures,
 74 2    |            the first perceptions of children, and I say that they are
 75 2    |        first instincts of virtue in children;—when pleasure, and friendship,
 76 2    |              or words, to the young children of any well–conditioned
 77 2    |             Athenian. If very small children are to determine the question,
 78 2    |         course.~Athenian. The older children will be advocates of comedy;
 79 2    |           young and tender souls of children, reciting in their strains
 80 2    |            sacred choir composed of children, which is to sing lustily
 81 2    |             woman, is minded to get children. There are numberless other
 82 3    |           gives law to his wife and children, and they do not busy themselves
 83 3    |          naturally stamp upon their children, and upon their children’
 84 3    |            children, and upon their children’s children, their own likings;
 85 3    |           and upon their children’s children, their own likings; and,
 86 3    |      entrusted the education of his children to the women; and they brought
 87 4    |        which is the natural gift of children and animals, of whom some
 88 4    |       parents ought to govern their children, and the elder the younger,
 89 4    |        ruder method of cure; and as children ask the doctor to be gentle
 90 4    |             all states the birth of children goes back to the connection
 91 4    |        immortal, because they leave children’s children behind them,
 92 4    |       because they leave children’s children behind them, and partake
 93 4    |             will not have a wife or children, is impiety. He who obeys
 94 5    |          riches for the sake of his children, in order that he may leave
 95 5    |             then, bequeath to their children not a heap of riches, but
 96 5    |          wane: so that, whether his children or friends are alive or
 97 5    |         this communion of women and children and of property, in which
 98 5    |             her more carefully than children do their mother. For she
 99 5    |            lot leave the one of his children who is his best beloved,
100 5    |       inheritance; but of his other children, if he have more than one,
101 5    |          those citizens who have no children and are disposed to receive
102 5    |           individuals have too many children, male or female, or too
103 5    |        moderate limit, and to beget children in accordance with our ordinances,
104 6    |           fifty years old, and have children lawfully begotten, both
105 6    |           to allow the education of children to become a secondary or
106 6    |     suitable for the procreation of children, let him marry if he be
107 6    |             the equability of their children’s disposition to be of more
108 6    |   immortality, and leave behind him children’s children to be the servants
109 6    |         leave behind him children’s children to be the servants of God
110 6    |         they ought not to begetting children when their bodies are dissipated
111 6    |    especially while he is begetting children, ought to take care and
112 6    |            offspring, and he begets children in every way inferior. And
113 6    |            himself and bring up his children, going away from his father
114 6    |            shall beget and bring up children, handing on the torch of
115 6    |         year after marriage, before children are born, will follow next
116 6    |            us speak of the birth of children, and after their birth of
117 6    |           what way they shall beget children, threatening them, if they
118 6    |            and fairest specimens of children which they can. Now all
119 6    |             and to the begetting of children, and the bride in like manner
120 6    | particularly at the time when their children are not yet born. And let
121 6    |             those who are begetting children, disregarding the ordinances
122 6    |     performed. Let the begetting of children and the supervision of those
123 6    |             if any continue without children up to this time, let them
124 6    |    thanksgivings after the birth of children; and if he go, let any one
125 6    |      themselves have done begetting children according to the law, a
126 6    |             who are still begetting children, let the same penalties
127 6    |            shall have brought forth children up to fifty years of age;
128 7    |          BOOK VII~And now, assuming children of both sexes to have been
129 7    |           to be always carrying the children somewhere or other, either
130 7    |        suited to the souls of young children, in the same manner in which
131 7    |         mothers want their restless children to go to sleep they do not
132 7    |           the Bacchantes and of the children is an emotion of fear, which
133 7    |             be desired, sending the children to sleep, and making the
134 7    |         inauspicious signs by which children show what they love and
135 7    |          the case of the free–born. Children at that age have certain
136 7    |         when they meet. And all the children who are between the ages
137 7    |          nurses are to see that the children behave properly and orderly—
138 7    |       nursing and amusements of the children, and the men superintending
139 7    |          are ordered with a view to children having the same plays, and
140 7    |              that when the plays of children are altered they are merely
141 7    |          not considering that these children who make innovations in
142 7    |         from the last generation of children, and, being different, will
143 7    |           the art of music, and the children shall come not only if their
144 7    |           household and bringing up children, in which they will observe
145 7    |            nor as long as women and children and houses and all other
146 7    |         without a shepherd, nor can children be left without tutors,
147 7    |         care of the training of our children, directing their natures,
148 7    |           to harangue our women and children, and the common people,
149 7    |        invented for the use of mere children, which they learn as a pleasure
150 7    |             education of very young children there were things, as we
151 8    |     including their wives and their children, when the magistrates determine
152 8    |          for their lives, and their children, and their property, and
153 8    |       slaves and freemen, women and children, throughout the city:—that
154 8    |          intercourse of parents and children—such a law, extending to
155 8    |          procreation and nurture of children, and for education, and
156 8    |          shall take effect. For the children of the metics, being artisans,
157 9    |           others, who were also the children of divine parents, but that
158 9    |            of the land. But let his children and family, if they avoid
159 9    |            not to be visited on the children, except in the case of some
160 9    |             result in the errors of children and old men; and these he
161 9    |        shall never afterwards beget children together, or live under
162 9    |            in sacred rites with his children, neither let him sit at
163 9    |         their brethren, or of their children.~And he who is disobedient
164 9    |           some time or other by his children—if a mother, he shall of
165 9    |             mother, or brethren, or children, of life voluntarily and
166 9    |             his father or mother or children or brethren or wife who
167 9    |              and have charge of the children as orphans. If their sons
168 9    |            such a misfortune has no children, the kindred of the exiled
169 9    |           either sex, including the children of cousins, whether on the
170 9    |             wounding are brought by children against their parents, those
171 9    |          sixty years of age, having children of their own, not adopted,
172 9    |            appointed in the case of children suing their parents; and
173 9    |            than himself, who has no children, whether he be an old man
174 10   |          reference to the duties of children to their parents, I cannot
175 10   |            and sounds delightful to children—and their parents during
176 10   |      earnestness on behalf of their children and of themselves, and with
177 10   |       growing old and leaving their children’s children in high offices,
178 10   |            leaving their children’s children in high offices, and their
179 10   |             if he leaves behind him children who are fit to be citizens,
180 11   |            is careless about having children and regardless of the legislator,
181 11   |        spring, and men of women and children, and rulers of their subjects;
182 11   |          and if he gives any of his children to be adopted by another
183 11   |              If the testator has no children at all, he may select and
184 11   |       willing to take charge of the children, shall be recognized according
185 11   |          and brothers’ and sisters’ children, and first the males shall
186 11   |    grandchildren of a grandfather’s children, the maiden may choose with
187 11   |      intestate. And if a man has no children, either male or female,
188 11   |             money.~Thus will orphan children have a second birth. After
189 11   |             both to them and to the children’s own guardians a suitable
190 11   |          especial care of their own children, and are friendly to those
191 11   |            own good and that of his children. He who obeys the tale which
192 11   |     examples of the manner in which children of freemen should be brought
193 11   |            bringing up of their own children, and of the care of their
194 11   |          natures. Those who have no children, or only a few, at the time
195 11   |          view to the procreation of children; but those who have a sufficient
196 11   |         have a sufficient number of children should separate and marry
197 11   |            If a woman dies, leaving children, male or female, the law
198 11   |             husband to bring up the children without introducing into
199 11   |       stepmother. But if he have no children, then he shall be compelled
200 11   |      leaving a sufficient number of children, the mother of his children
201 11   |         children, the mother of his children shall remain with them and
202 11   |      matters; if there is a lack of children, let the choice be made
203 11   |            view to having them; two children, one of either sex, shall
204 11   |        called down wrath upon their children, whence it is clear that
205 11   |            be, mighty against their children as no others are. And shall
206 11   |           dishonoured by his or her children, are heard by the Gods in
207 11   |         their wits, as if they were children, compelling the legislator
208 12   |            which prevails among the children of the Nile, nor driving
209 12   |        begets and brings up his own children, and has his share of dealings
210 12   |        participate, and quite young children—I mean courage; for a courageous


Lysis
    Part
211 Intro|     sometimes adopted in talking to children, and consists in asking
212 Text |           Happy the man to whom his children are dear, and steeds having
213 Text |             for example, very young children, too young to love, or even


Menexenus
    Part
214 Text |           country; but they are the children of the soil, dwelling and
215 Text |      countries, a stepmother to her children, but their own true mother;
216 Text |       spring up to be a boon to her children, and to help them in their
217 Text |          citizens are brethren, the children all of one mother, and we
218 Text |       enslaving Europe, and how the children of this land, who were our
219 Text |             than bring you and your children into disgrace, and rather
220 Text |           is to be delivered to our children.~‘Some of us have fathers
221 Text |         they prayed, not that their children might live for ever, but
222 Text |        riches come and go, when his children are given and taken away,
223 Text |            nurture of our wives and children, they will soonest forget
224 Text |    exhortation of ours.’~This, O ye children and parents of the dead,
225 Text |             name I beseech you, the children, to imitate your fathers,
226 Text |          concerning the parents and children of those who die in war;
227 Text |             in the education of the children, desiring as far as it is
228 Text |             by them; while they are children she is a parent to them,


Meno
    Part
229 Text |        doubt that Thucydides, whose children were taught things for which


Phaedo
    Part
230 Intro|            prison Xanthippe and her children are sent home in the care
231 Intro|             is dreaming of her lost children as they were forty or fifty
232 Intro|        There are punishments too of children when they are growing up
233 Intro|         return of Xanthippe and his children indicates that the philosopher
234 Intro|          who returns again with her children to take a final farewell,
235 Text |          the argument further. Like children, you are haunted with a
236 Text |          anything to say about your children, or any other matter in
237 Text |           he had taken the bath his children were brought to him—(he


Phaedrus
    Part
238 Intro| representatives of the Athenians as children of the soil. Under the image
239 Intro|          Educated parents will have children fit to receive education;
240 Text |            SOCRATES: Come out, fair children, and convince Phaedrus,
241 Text |            and the guardian of fair children, and to him we sung the
242 Text |           paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute
243 Text |             rhetoricians will be as children in comparison of him. And


Philebus
    Part
244 Intro|           them to be no better than children, and with few exceptions—
245 Text |           our disposal. And now, as children say, what has been fairly
246 Text |            commonly the ruin of the children which are born to us, causing
247 Text |           gods; for pleasures, like children, have not the least particle


Protagoras
    Part
248 Text |       rhythms quite familiar to the children’s souls, in order that they
249 Text |           means are the rich; their children begin to go to school soonest
250 Text |           yourselves, nor send your children, to the Sophists, who are


The Republic
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251 1    |             or of parents for their children, besides that natural love
252 2    |       Musaeus and Orpheus, who were children of the Moon and the muses-that
253 2    |             cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their
254 2    |          myrtle. And they and their children will feast, drinking of
255 2    |             a similar life to their children after them. ~Yes, Socrates,
256 2    |            that we begin by telling children stories which, though not
257 2    |            we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales
258 2    |            and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only.
259 2    |             should begin by telling children; and when they grow up,
260 2    |             the poets scaring their children with a bad version of these
261 2    |          they make cowards of their children, and at the same time speak
262 3    |             most popular style with children and their attendants, and
263 3    |      citizens they are to regard as children of the earth and their own
264 3    |       generally be preserved in the children. But as all are of the same
265 4    |        women and the procreation of children, which will all follow the
266 4    |        pains are generally found in children and women and servants,
267 4    |   mentioning, and which is found in children and women, slave and freeman,
268 4    |           may observe even in young children that they are full of spirit
269 5    |             the matter of women and children "friends have all things
270 5    |        citizens-how they will bring children into the world, and rear
271 5    |           of community of women and children is this which is to prevail
272 5    |     possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on
273 5    |            and nurture of women and children. ~By Zeus, he said, the
274 5    |           bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to
275 5    |             to be common, and their children are to be common, and no
276 5    |         utility of having wives and children in common; the possibility
277 5    |             it when they are having children. ~Why, said I, and so they
278 5    |            of age may begin to bear children to the State, and continue
279 5    |     quickest, and continue to beget children until he be fifty-five. ~
280 5    |      married will call all the male children who are born in the seventh
281 5    |            his sons, and the female children his daughters, and they
282 5    |              and he will call their children his grandchildren, and they
283 5    |            be the strains which the children will hear repeated in their
284 5    |            a community of women and children? ~That will be the chief
285 5    |          the community of wives and children among our citizens is clearly
286 5    |             has a separate wife and children and private pleasures and
287 5    |          quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. ~
288 5    |           with which they and their children are crowned is the fulness
289 5    |  described-common education, common children; and they are to watch over
290 5    |         take with them any of their children who are strong enough, that,
291 5    |          careful in educating their children and in giving them the opportunity
292 5    |            great the danger is! the children will be lost as well as
293 5    |          our first step-to make our children spectators of war; but we
294 5    |            against such chances the children must be at once furnished
295 5    |            that he may have as many children as possible? ~Agreed. ~Again,
296 5    |       visage is manly, the fair are children of the gods; and as to the
297 5    |          are asked at feasts or the children's puzzle about the eunuch
298 6    |              and the procreation of children, and the appointment of
299 6    |             the same. The women and children are now disposed of, but
300 7    |       surely you would not have the children of your ideal State, whom
301 7    |            Do you remember that the children, too, were to be taken to
302 7    |            take possession of their children, who will be unaffected
303 8    |             perfect State wives and children are to be in common; and
304 8    |          jest with us as if we were children, and to address us in a
305 8    |           them, and they will bring children into the world when they
306 8    |       bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly or fortunate.
307 8    |     pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father:
308 8    |         multiplied into a family of children: and so they make drone
309 8    |       flower. And just as women and children think a variety of colors
310 9    |            lest he and his wife and children should be put to death by
311 9    |    authority which we exercise over children, and the refusal to let
312 10   |         good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when
313 10   |        reason deems best; not, like children who have had a fall, keeping
314 10   |            he said concerning young children dying almost as soon as
315 10   |            evils, to devour his own children. But when he had time to


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
316 Text |       instance, who prayed that his children might divide their inheritance
317 Text |              For some have begotten children who were utterly bad, and
318 Text |           while the parents of good children have undergone the misfortune
319 Text |         preferred never to have had children rather than to have had


The Seventh Letter
    Part
320 Text |     enslaved, for themselves, their children’s children and descendants;
321 Text |        themselves, their children’s children and descendants; the attempt
322 Text |           of mature years, who have children and wives at home, and,


The Sophist
    Part
323 Intro|             to make all things, and children, who see his pictures at
324 Intro|              marrying and begetting children; another of two principles,
325 Intro|           rest or stability. And as children say entreatingly, ‘Give
326 Text |           intelligent sort of young children, to whom he shows his pictures
327 Text |             one of the divisions of children’s play?~STRANGER: Then we
328 Text |         STRANGER: As if we had been children, to whom they repeated each
329 Text |         they were married and begat children, and brought them up; and
330 Text |          them; the real aborigines, children of the dragon’s teeth, would
331 Text |         assert universal motion. As children say entreatingly ‘Give us


The Statesman
    Part
332 Intro|         reduced to the condition of children in mind as well as body,
333 Intro|         that the happiness of these children of Cronos must have depended
334 Intro|          illustrated by an example. Children are taught to read by being
335 Text |             possession of women and children; for all men rose again
336 Text |         stature, and the newly-born children of the earth became grey
337 Text |         ready listener in you: when children are beginning to know their
338 Text |            few years they and their children and the whole city often
339 Text |         States by giving and taking children in marriage, or between
340 Text |         best for the procreation of children.~YOUNG SOCRATES: In what


The Symposium
    Part
341 Intro|       reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality;
342 Intro|           creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom
343 Intro|         would not sooner have these children of the mind than the ordinary
344 Intro|        vulgar by the procreation of children, may become the highest
345 Text |          inclined to marry or beget children,—if at all, they do so only
346 Text |            would have run for their children, and to spend money and
347 Text |       themselves to women and beget children—this is the character of
348 Text |         than those who beget mortal children, for the children who are
349 Text |            mortal children, for the children who are their common offspring
350 Text |         would not rather have their children than ordinary human ones?
351 Text |             them in the creation of children such as theirs, which have
352 Text |             who would not have such children as Lycurgus left behind
353 Text |        their honour for the sake of children such as theirs; which were
354 Text |          for the sake of his mortal children.~‘These are the lesser mysteries


Theaetetus
    Part
355 Intro|           he ushers into light, not children, but the thoughts of men.
356 Intro|     midwives, who are ‘past bearing children,’ he too can have no offspring—
357 Intro|          the world at one time real children and at another time idols
358 Intro|            I have delivered them of children they have lost them by an
359 Intro|              In learning to read as children, we are first taught the
360 Intro|           And I have shown that the children of your brain are not worth
361 Intro|            allied to sense, such as children appear to have and barbarians
362 Text |          the world at one time real children, and at another time counterfeits
363 Text |          and have not only lost the children of whom I had previously
364 Text |           women is when their first children are taken from them. For
365 Text |             they become helpless as children. These however are digressions
366 Text |    knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty;


Timaeus
    Part
367 Intro|           property and of women and children. But he makes no mention
368 Intro|            mean to say that you are children; there is no opinion or
369 Intro|           annals, Solon, are a mere children’s story. For in the first
370 Intro|             you dwelt as became the children of the gods, excelling all
371 Intro|          the ancients, who were the children of the gods, as they said;
372 Intro|         Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven; that
373 Intro|            Here, whose brothers and children are known to everybody.~
374 Intro|             his own nature. And his children, receiving from him the
375 Intro|             lives over again in his children, and can never have too
376 Intro|             those that are found in children, but they become more obtuse
377 Intro|   expression—‘You Hellenes are ever children and there is no knowledge
378 Intro|            we doubt the word of the children of the Gods? Although they
379 Text |            about the procreation of children? Or rather was not the proposal
380 Text |        forgotten? for all wives and children were to be in common, to
381 Text |             and those of a younger, children and grandchildren.~TIMAEUS:
382 Text |       remember how we said that the children of the good parents were
383 Text |             to be educated, and the children of the bad secretly dispersed
384 Text |     Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old
385 Text |           begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what
386 Text |            better than the tales of children. In the first place you
387 Text |           all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods.~
388 Text |            we doubt the word of the children of the gods? Although they
389 Text |         Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven, and
390 Text |             and others who were the children of these.~Now, when all
391 Text |         them in these words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are my works,
392 Text |          accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient
393 Text |             desirous of procreating children, and when remaining unfruitful