The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|          than himself; and that the little advantage which in some
  2 Intro|             knew nothing: they knew little or nothing, and imagined
  3 Text |      pretend to know either much or little—not that I mean to speak
  4 Text |           the truth of the rest.~As little foundation is there for
  5 Text |          the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking
  6 Text |          something, but really know little or nothing; and then those
  7 Text |             that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do
  8 Text |           reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and
  9 Text |            you. If you had waited a little while, your desire would
 10 Text |             I must die. Stay then a little, for we may as well talk


Charmides
    Part
 11 PreS |             give and take, we add a little here and leave out a little
 12 PreS |         little here and leave out a little there. The translator may
 13 PreS |          propose to ascend. But one little fact, not irrelevant to
 14 Text |            to begin again, and be a little plainer. Do you mean that
 15 Text |             so much pain, and to so little profit, from the Thracian,


Cratylus
    Part
 16 Intro|           study of language we know little, and there necessarily arises
 17 Intro|                No, but you may “add little to little,” as Hesiod says.’
 18 Intro|          but you may “add little to little,” as Hesiod says.’ Socrates
 19 Intro|        would be few such cries, and little danger of mistaking or confusing
 20 Intro|          nature of a cause, and too little of an effect,—too much of
 21 Intro|            much of an absolute, too little of a relative character,—
 22 Intro|           too much of an ideal, too little of a matter-of-fact existence.~
 23 Intro|            are conjectures only: so little do we know of the origin
 24 Intro|      Consciousness carries us but a little way in the investigation
 25 Intro|            French or German. Even a little Latin will enable us to
 26 Intro|            in a new order or even a little perverted in meaning when
 27 Text |           the same meaning. And how little in common with the letters
 28 Text |            reputation—the name is a little altered and disguised so
 29 Text |             yet more variously if a little permutation is allowed.
 30 Text |             the name of a spring, a little disguised; for that which
 31 Text |         name of Apollo,—and with as little reason; the fear, if I am
 32 Text |             agree with him, ‘to add little to little’ is worth while.
 33 Text |         with him, ‘to add little to little’ is worth while. And, therefore,
 34 Text |            to our knowledge, take a little trouble and oblige Socrates,
 35 Text |         subtracts or perhaps adds a little, he will make an image but


Critias
    Part
 36 Text |      heavenly things which has very little likeness to them; but we
 37 Text |          that when his turn comes a little while hence, he will make
 38 Text |        chiefs of the land, but very little about their actions. The
 39 Text |       everything but virtue, caring little for their present state


Crito
    Part
 40 Intro|          man wise or foolish.’~This little dialogue is a perfect piece
 41 Text |       exorbitant in their demands—a little money will satisfy them.
 42 Text |           them to death—and with as little reason. But now, since the
 43 Text |             a miserable desire of a little more life? Perhaps not,


Euthydemus
    Part
 44 Intro|     ordinary discourse. They are of little or no use or significance
 45 Intro|      incredulous, and indulges in a little raillery at the expense
 46 Intro|          philosophy and politics, a little worse by perverting the
 47 Text |            sat down again, and in a little while the two brothers Euthydemus
 48 Text |     speaking the truth, and yet I a little doubt your power to make
 49 Text |        brothers.~Let me ask you one little question more, said Dionysodorus,


Euthyphro
    Part
 50 Intro|           aims or interests in this little Dialogue: (1) the dialectical
 51 Intro|            the suitableness of this little work to aid Socrates at
 52 Text |        SOCRATES: A young man who is little known, Euthyphro; and I
 53 Text |          the powers, Euthyphro! how little does the common herd know
 54 Text |          Which shows, Socrates, how little they know what the gods
 55 Text |        better, my good friend, in a little while. The point which I
 56 Text |     Euthyphro; yet still there is a little point about which I should


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 57 Pre  |           scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general
 58 Intro|          Plato in which there is so little dramatic verisimilitude.~
 59 Text |            if you will grant me one little favour.~ALCIBIADES: Yes,
 60 Text |        saying, to come forward in a little while in the character of
 61 Text |             SOCRATES: Whether he be little or great, good or ill-looking,


Gorgias
    Part
 62 Intro|          advantage in drawing out a little the main outlines of the
 63 Intro|            real business of life. A little philosophy is an excellent
 64 Intro|             advice, then, and get a little common sense; leave to others
 65 Intro|            that, and please to be a little milder in your language,
 66 Intro|            Demos. But let us have a little more conversation. You remember
 67 Intro|           curiosity, the mention of little circumstances, simplicity,
 68 Text |             with doing, and require little or no speaking; in painting,
 69 Text |            either no action or very little, as, for example, the arts
 70 Text |       please to refresh my memory a little; did you say—‘in an unjust
 71 Text |       children. For I love to see a little child, who is not of an
 72 Text |             you, great Sir, to be a little milder in your instructions,
 73 Text |             is always arguing about little and unworthy questions.~
 74 Text |       Socrates, you shall ask these little peddling questions, since
 75 Text |              please then to go on a little longer, and put the head
 76 Text |             to my words, and then a little while afterwards you come
 77 Text |        would be tried in a court of little boys at the indictment of


Ion
    Part
 78 Intro|            grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and
 79 Intro|            that this truly Platonic little work is not a forgery of


Laches
    Part
 80 Intro|        showing, as Nicias says, how little he knows the man, who will
 81 Text |             brave, and fail ever so little, other men will be on the
 82 Text |        which accomplishes much in a little time—whether in running,
 83 Text |          and a monkey, have equally little pretensions to courage.~
 84 Text |          imagine that I should call little children courageous, which


Laws
    Book
 85 1    |            them; will you tell me a little more explicitly what is
 86 1    |             Let us then discourse a little more at length about intoxication,
 87 1    |           to clear up the subject a little further by an illustration
 88 2    |      Cleinias. Will you try to be a little plainer?~Athenian. I was
 89 3    |           made all in a moment, but little by little, during a very
 90 3    |             a moment, but little by little, during a very long period
 91 3    |          for foreign poets are very little read among the Cretans.~
 92 3    |           forgotten what was said a little while ago?~Megillus. No.~
 93 3    |             time.~Megillus. Speak a little more clearly.~Athenian.
 94 3    |           to them, as they did; but little by little they would have
 95 3    |             they did; but little by little they would have been all
 96 4    |              and you will find very little stone–pine or plane–wood,
 97 4    |             Tell us what you mean a little more clearly. Do you mean
 98 4    |             to receive them. Even a little done in the way of conciliation
 99 4    |              Suppose that we have a little conversation with the legislator,
100 6    |           magistrates let us stop a little and say a word in season
101 6    |            that there would be very little danger, at the end of the
102 6    |           Cnosians may fairly use a little violence in order to make
103 6    |             among men it avails but little; that little, however, is
104 6    |             avails but little; that little, however, is the source
105 6    |            surprised if I go back a little, for we have plenty of leisure,
106 7    |         private life there are many little things, not always apparent,
107 7    |           gymnastic applied to such little creatures, which, although
108 7    |             nursling should have as little of sorrow and fear, and
109 7    |            who take up a position a little way from the altar, and
110 7    |             Athenian. Were we not a little while ago quite convinced
111 7    |            puppets, but having some little share of reality.~Megillus.
112 8    |          true.~Athenian. Does not a little word extinguish all pleasures
113 8    |       courts. There are innumerable little matters relating to the
114 9    |            whether he steal much or little, let there be one law, and
115 9    |        thief may have taken much or little, and either from sacred
116 9    |          you favour me by stating a little more clearly the difference
117 9    |            tale which we narrated a little while ago, in the hope that
118 10   |         unhappy man, which, however little, contributes to the whole;
119 11   |             him, if the thing is of little worth, and the man who takes
120 11   |             belongs to him, whether little or much, and the other admits
121 11   |            men in general, who care little about piety and purity in
122 11   |           city may be as good or as little bad as possible, the guardians
123 11   |           society for the sake of a little gain, in his case let the
124 11   |             of orphanhood may be as little sad to them as possible.
125 12   |          which he steals be much or little, he shall have the same
126 12   |     punishment. For he who steals a little steals with the same wish
127 12   |        citizens as desire to look a little more at leisure at the doings
128 12   |     necessary, and this shall be as little as possible. The second
129 12   |          bodies of the dead with as little hurt as possible to the
130 12   |           purpose.~Athenian. Wait a little before you ask; and let
131 12   |             waking reality, which a little while ago we attempted to


Lysis
    Part
132 Intro|             may live apart and have little intercourse, but when they
133 Text |            of Lysis; and if he is a little intoxicated, there is every
134 Text |              which they took out of little wicker baskets. There was


Menexenus
    Part
135 Pre  |           scholar and critic, is of little importance to the general


Meno
    Part
136 Intro|             ideas. Yet there is one little trait in the description
137 Intro|            Hume and Kant it has had little or nothing to do with facts
138 Intro|            and illusion and have as little relation to actual facts
139 Text |            when frittered away into little pieces. And, therefore,
140 Text |         rate, will you condescend a little, and allow the question ‘


Parmenides
    Part
141 Intro|         description of him. After a little persuasion he is induced
142 Intro|          the connection. Things are little by partaking of littleness,
143 Intro|           mankind, as we may say, a little parodying the language of
144 Intro|      ourselves and in the world.~‘A little philosophy takes us away
145 Text |           the Thirty, and heard the little that remained of the dialogue.
146 Text |            be equal to the many and little; for it could not have appeared


Phaedo
    Part
147 Intro|           religious people speak so little to one another. In the fulness
148 Text |             of the body, and has as little as possible to do with it,
149 Text |             I shall truly know in a little while, if God will, when
150 Text |          suggest that we converse a little of the probabilities of
151 Text |             faithful, and then in a little while he turns out to be
152 Text |             great man standing by a little one, I fancied that one
153 Text |            by drinking the poison a little later; I should only be


Phaedrus
    Part
154 Intro|             he would like to have a little more conversation before
155 Intro|     reckoning, save the phrase is a little variations’); secondly,
156 Intro|        ourselves,’ as we may say, a little parodying the words of Pausanias
157 Intro|             to hear him, retiring a little behind a rampart, not of
158 Intro|            Better, he would say, a ‘little love at the beginning,’
159 Intro|             in a congenial soil the little seed becomes a tree, and ‘
160 Intro|           been written in youth. As little weight can be attached to
161 Intro|           interest of Phaedrus, the little touch about the two versions
162 Intro|        diligence in writing, and so little mind or real creative power?
163 Intro|         author as a whole, and very little of the context of any passage
164 Intro|     beauties of an author, and very little light is thrown by him on
165 Text |            this the exact spot? The little stream is delightfully clear
166 Text |             great, slowly laying up little wrath— unintentional offences
167 Text |        obvious, and there can be as little doubt by what name any other
168 Text |          when they have gone back a little, the one is overcome with
169 Text |             he would like to have a little pleasure in return for many
170 Text |          that he is frightened at a little noise; and, possibly, you
171 Text |          force of argument make the little appear great and the great
172 Text |          appear great and the great little, disguise the new in old
173 Text |            as well as them. ‘Have a little patience, Phaedrus and Socrates,


Philebus
    Part
174 Intro| contemporary Pythagoreans.~There is little in the characters which
175 Intro|            to consider the matter a little more deeply, even though
176 Intro|         neutral; we may embellish a little by calling them gold, silver,
177 Intro|            amount of white paint; a little pure white is fairer than
178 Intro|              or of the world?’ This little addition has changed the
179 Intro|             language and thought in little rills, which convey them
180 Text |            you must let me make one little remark first about these
181 Text |          let us first agree on some little points.~PROTARCHUS: What
182 Text |           you would explain to me a little more about them, perhaps
183 Text |             if you do not object, a little more fully.~PHILEBUS: Take
184 Text |            but will you try to be a little plainer?~SOCRATES: Do not
185 Text |          which, as we were saying a little while ago, are produced
186 Text |     SOCRATES: We were maintaining a little while since, that when desires,
187 Text |         suppose that we embellish a little and call the first gold,
188 Text |        quite right in saying that a little pure white is whiter and
189 Text |         third time I must say, Be a little plainer, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
190 Text |            that is doubtful and has little which is certain.~PROTARCHUS:
191 Text |           truth, however humble and little useful an art. And as for
192 Text |      comparison of white colours, a little whiteness, if that little
193 Text |           little whiteness, if that little be only pure, was said to
194 Text |              PROTARCHUS: There is a little which yet remains, and I


Protagoras
    Part
195 Intro|        whose temper begins to get a little ruffled at the process to
196 Intro|           Sophists; he only makes a little merry at their expense.~
197 Text |            On entering we stopped a little, in order to look about
198 Text |             he would like to have a little display and glorification
199 Text |              if possible, show me a little more clearly that virtue
200 Text |           to promote virtue ever so little, we must be content with
201 Text |    Protagoras, want to ask of you a little question, which if you will
202 Text |             truly good’; and then a little further on in the poem,
203 Text |            speaks in what follows a little further on as if he meant


The Republic
    Book
204 1    |             my sons not less, but a little more, than I received. ~
205 1    |           may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument,
206 1    |            wish that you would be a little clearer. ~Well, he said,
207 1    |             property of others, not little by little but wholesale;
208 1    |            of others, not little by little but wholesale; comprehending
209 1    |           think, that we may make a little progress. ~Yes, that is
210 2    |             think the description a little too coarse, I ask you to
211 2    |     artisans will be sharers in our little State, which is already
212 2    |          strength, and therefore of little use for any other purpose;
213 3    |            of downright impiety. As little can I believe the narrative
214 3    |              but there will be very little of the former, and a great
215 3    |              and there will be very little narration. ~That, he said,
216 3    |         herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently
217 3    |        flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather
218 4    |           no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of
219 4    |          were it not that little by little this spirit of license,
220 4    |            warm or cold, or much or little, or, in a word, drink of
221 4    |        alone is neither of much nor little, nor of good nor bad, nor
222 4    |            wise who has in him that little part which rules, and which
223 5    |      Polemarchus, who was sitting a little way off, just beyond Adeimantus,
224 5    |        whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean,
225 5    |            is not easy; but after a little reflection there is no difficulty. ~
226 5    |          another with difficulty; a little learning will lead the one
227 5    |          the possibility. ~But that little attempt is detected, and
228 5    |             my fate. Yet grant me a little favor: let me feast my mind
229 5    |            like even to mention the little meannesses of which they
230 5    |            you were acknowledging a little while ago that knowledge
231 6    |            after much toil he makes little progress. ~Certainly not. ~
232 6    |          that they are led astray a little at each step in the argument,
233 6    |            of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity
234 6    |           has had his eyes opened a little and is humbled and taken
235 6    |             not exactly like a bald little tinker who has just got
236 6    |              and are they growing a little calmer at what they have
237 6    |             should satisfy us. When little things are elaborated with
238 6    |            heard me say, we know so little; and, without which, any
239 6    |             of mind: ~Will you be a little more explicit? he said. ~
240 7    |         passing from a day which is little better than night to the
241 7    |      education. ~What is that? ~The little matter of distinguishing
242 7    |            here are three fingers-a little finger, a second finger,
243 7    |          know, he replied. ~Think a little and you will see that what
244 7    |             for that purpose a very little of either geometry or calculation
245 7    |           is true, Socrates; but so little seems to be known as yet
246 8    |              Why, he said, there is little to be squeezed out of people
247 8    |     squeezed out of people who have little. ~And this is called the
248 8    |        congregate unless they get a little honey. ~And do they not
249 9    |            neither too much nor too little, but just enough to lay
250 9    |            stay at home and do many little pieces of mischief in the
251 9    |            argument you should be a little more certain, and should
252 9    |            injustice, let us have a little conversation with him. ~
253 10   |          extraordinary man! ~Wait a little, and there will be more
254 10   |             and ten is surely but a little thing in comparison with
255 10   |             seriously think of this little space rather than of the


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
256 Text |       losing them, and have been so little happier than the others
257 Text |            such matters, and pay so little respect to the Gods that


The Seventh Letter
    Part
258 Text |           as I could, but with very little success; and in the fourth
259 Text |            few, who are able with a little teaching to find it out
260 Text |           point I intend to speak a little more at length; for perhaps,
261 Text |           that which we mentioned a little earlier, that, whereas there


The Sophist
    Part
262 Intro|             the syllogism.~There is little worthy of remark in the
263 Intro|          The truth is, that we know little about them; and the witness
264 Intro|           been so much read, and so little understood. The Pre-Socratic
265 Intro|         make an order which, with a little exaggeration or disproportion
266 Intro|             circle, he removes to a little distance and looks back
267 Text |       society, instead of talking a little and hearing others talk,
268 Text |         gives much trouble and does little good—~THEAETETUS: There
269 Text |            expression when sifted a little. Would you object to begin
270 Text |    THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER: And a little while ago I said that not-being
271 Text |            displeased if I flinch a little from the grasp of such a
272 Text |            STRANGER: I have a third little request which I wish to
273 Text |           truth, they break up into little bits by their arguments,
274 Text |             to you to imply what is little any more than what is equal?~
275 Text |           is able to advance even a little ought to be of good cheer,
276 Text |           he who is dispirited at a little progress do, if he were


The Statesman
    Part
277 Intro|        power; the characters excite little or no interest, and the
278 Intro|       rhetoric of the Phaedrus, by ‘little invisible pegs,’ but in
279 Intro|            stamps, which may with a little violence be comprehended
280 Intro|          worse physician who uses a little gentle violence in effecting
281 Intro|         thinkers, because there was little or nothing in the space
282 Intro|            The too much and the too little are in restless motion:
283 Intro|           and at the same time some little violence may be used in
284 Intro|          and good judge, who paying little or no regard to the law,
285 Intro|          VII. There would have been little disposition to doubt the
286 Text |       Stranger.~THEODORUS: And in a little while, Socrates, you will
287 Text |       proceed, to make my meaning a little clearer.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
288 Text |            much haste, which is too little speed.~YOUNG SOCRATES: And
289 Text |            think that we may have a little amusement; there is a famous
290 Text |         there is not much, and that little is more to the purpose.
291 Text |            some of them may, with a little forcing, be placed among
292 Text |        agree.~STRANGER: Let us go a little nearer, in order that we
293 Text |    imitations of this, as we said a little while ago, some for the
294 Text |           sort of tribute, of which little or nothing is spent upon


The Symposium
    Part
295 Intro|    appearing he and the host jest a little; the question is then asked
296 Intro|          Aristodemus is called ‘the little’ in Xenophon’s Memorabilia (
297 Text |          who told Phoenix;—he was a little fellow, who never wore any
298 Text |          better, then gargle with a little water; and if it still continues,
299 Text |            virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content
300 Text |            the drinking is over.’ A little while afterwards they heard


Theaetetus
    Part
301 Intro|       respects the Theaetetus is so little akin. (1) The same persons
302 Intro|     forty-five or forty-six. This a little impairs the beauty of Socrates’
303 Intro|           anybody; and now he has a little question to which he wants
304 Intro|      contains too much and also too little. For although Theaetetus
305 Intro|          situation is reversed; the little wretch turns giddy, and
306 Intro|            all jolted together in a little soul, which is narrow and
307 Intro|             reasons why there is so little self-knowledge among mankind;
308 Intro|       distinction carries us a very little way, for recollection is
309 Intro|             limits. The savage with little or no thought has a quicker
310 Intro|          found them. They have done little compared with their own
311 Intro|             but they have done that little, only because they sought
312 Intro|           too much analysis and too little synthesis, too much division
313 Intro|             mind into parts and too little conception of it as a whole
314 Intro|            of mankind, and there is little or no hope of adding in
315 Intro|     hitherto been investigated with little or no success.~h. The impossibility
316 Intro|           influence of habit, which little by little changes the nature
317 Intro|           of habit, which little by little changes the nature of men,
318 Text |      believe that he had seen him a little before his own death, when
319 Text |             general; but there is a little difficulty which I want
320 Text |            do you mean?~SOCRATES: A little instance will sufficiently
321 Text |             worthy Socrates asked a little boy, whether the same man
322 Text |            count, and thinks that a little arithmetic would have got
323 Text |             when that narrow, keen, little legal mind is called to
324 Text |           beginning again. Better a little which is well done, than
325 Text |              Nobly! yes; but wait a little and hear the explanation,
326 Text |           all jostled together in a little soul, which has no room.
327 Text |          not eye-witnesses, while a little water is flowing in the
328 Text |              my friend, that only a little while ago we admitted and


Timaeus
    Part
329 Intro|          from fire, and as there is little rain in Egypt, we are not
330 Intro|       nations within the Pillars. A little while afterwards there were
331 Intro|            bound themselves, but by little invisible pegs, making each
332 Intro|            melt into and dry up the little veins are astringent if
333 Intro|           no sense because there is little soul in the marrow, and
334 Intro|             flesh, and covered with little bubbles, separately invisible,
335 Intro|           liquefied flesh, comes in little by little, it is congealed
336 Intro|           flesh, comes in little by little, it is congealed by the
337 Intro|           ancient philosophers this little word appeared to attain
338 Intro|            trivial matter (Rep.), a little instrument out of which
339 Intro|          angles in this figure is a little larger than the largest
340 Intro|            appearance only, which a little knowledge of mathematics
341 Intro|            of the body he knew very little,—e.g. of the uses of the
342 Intro|             omission to observe how little could be explained by them.
343 Intro|           clear that they throw but little light upon the Timaeus,
344 Intro|           in Palestine. It mattered little whether the description
345 Intro|        Strabo and Longinus, were as little disposed to believe in the
346 Intro|         A.D.). The commentary is of little or no value, either in a
347 Intro|          such a work can contribute little or nothing to the understanding
348 Intro|            words. On the whole this little tract faithfully reflects
349 Text |          themselves bound, but with little pegs too small to be visible,
350 Text |             contract and dry up the little veins, they are astringent
351 Text |          council-chamber, making as little noise and disturbance as
352 Text |          the first influx coming in little by little, hot and liquid,
353 Text |          influx coming in little by little, hot and liquid, is congealed
354 Text |         soul, or conversely, when a little soul is encased in a large