The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|          against that hour. For the speech breathes throughout a spirit
  2 Intro|           his character by making a speech. Then he proceeds to divide
  3 Intro|             And now the tone of the speech, instead of being more conciliatory,
  4 Intro|            mythology and figures of speech. The gentleness of the first
  5 Intro|            of the first part of the speech contrasts with the aggravated,
  6 Text |           know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and
  7 Text |          such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given
  8 Text |      witnesses in the course of his speech; and let him still produce
  9 Text |          stopped in the middle of a speech, but now in nothing I either


Charmides
    Part
 10 PreS |     rendering of words and forms of speech.~8 There is no kind of literature


Cratylus
    Part
 11 Intro|            distinguish the parts of speech and to enquire into the
 12 Intro|            as the son of Hermes, is speech or the brother of speech,
 13 Intro|            speech or the brother of speech, and is called Pan because
 14 Intro|           and is called Pan because speech indicates everything—o pan
 15 Intro|             If we had no faculty of speech, how should we communicate
 16 Intro|          because he has the gift of speech; and he could not have invented
 17 Intro|             An analogy, a figure of speech, an intelligible theory,
 18 Intro|            great stream or ocean of speech which has been flowing in
 19 Intro|            in which their organs of speech were more flexible, and
 20 Intro|        animal. Thus far we have not speech, but only the inarticulate
 21 Intro|         Naturally he broke out into speech—like the young infant he
 22 Intro|             first rudiment of human speech.~After a while the word
 23 Intro|         them. The earliest parts of speech, as we may call them by
 24 Intro|     complete.~So we may imagine the speech of man to have begun as
 25 Intro|     harmonious use of the organs of speech was acquired; to what extent
 26 Intro|             quantity and accent, of speech and writing, of poetry and
 27 Intro|      grammar and logic—the parts of speech, the Eleatic philosophy
 28 Intro|           cries of animals from the speech of man—the instincts of
 29 Intro|            the various disorders of speech; and we have the after-growth
 30 Intro|       nearer approach to articulate speech. We may note how in the
 31 Intro|           We can compare the use of speech with other mental and bodily
 32 Intro|          and bodily operations; for speech too is a kind of gesture,
 33 Intro|       breaks forth spontaneously in speech. We can trace the impulse
 34 Intro| distinctness and consecutiveness in speech, and a greater still in
 35 Intro|            we fix our thoughts. And speech is not a separate faculty,
 36 Intro|           as derived from the first speech of man, and of all the languages
 37 Intro|       provided by the physiology of speech. The organs of language
 38 Intro|        letters. The elements of all speech, like the elements of the
 39 Intro|            into the nature of human speech. Many observations which
 40 Intro|            life and use. Figures of speech, by which the vagueness
 41 Intro|           is a misleading figure of speech. Although all languages
 42 Intro|           be said to be a figure of speech. One person may have introduced
 43 Intro|          bestowed upon man, that of speech has been conveyed to him
 44 Intro|            not confuse the parts of speech with the categories of Logic.
 45 Intro|          operations, the process of speech, when most perfect, is least
 46 Intro|           not conscious of ordinary speech, though we are commonly
 47 Intro|            But behind the organs of speech and their action there remains
 48 Intro|            great structure of human speech and the lesser varieties
 49 Intro|             to lay aside figures of speech, such as the ‘root’ and
 50 Intro|       delusive. Yet such figures of speech are far nearer the truth
 51 Intro|       delights in definition: human speech, like human action, though
 52 Intro|            a system. Its figures of speech, pleonasms, ellipses, anacolutha,
 53 Intro|           relation to the organs of speech. The phonograph affords
 54 Intro|            of indeclinable parts of speech, the influence of euphony,
 55 Intro|             than any other parts of speech? Why is the number of words
 56 Intro|         there only so many parts of speech, and on what principle are
 57 Intro|        language, the cry or song or speech which was the expression
 58 Intro|            cry of a bird or animal. Speech before language was a rudis
 59 Intro|             accent, rhythm of human speech, trivial or serious, there
 60 Intro|         partially the laws by which speech is regulated: but we do
 61 Intro|            larger portions of human speech. It regulated the juxtaposition
 62 Intro|          music, not of song, but of speech, in prose as well as verse.
 63 Intro|            the poor stammerer) that speech has the co-operation of
 64 Intro|           facility to the organs of speech which is given by a new
 65 Intro|           is aided by the organs of speech and by the use of writing
 66 Intro|        relation to ordinary life or speech. (2) The invention of writing
 67 Intro|           best modern writings. The speech of young children, except
 68 Intro|         word or phrase or figure of speech.~There are associations
 69 Intro|         friend; a long or elaborate speech or composition is required
 70 Intro|       lesser context of the book or speech, there is also the larger
 71 Intro|            into the nature of human speech will give us a greater command
 72 Text |      HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES: And speech is a kind of action?~HERMOGENES:
 73 Text |          name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifies that he is
 74 Text |            expressive of the use of speech, and there is an often-recurring
 75 Text |           who invented language and speech; and we may imagine him
 76 Text |        SOCRATES: You are aware that speech signifies all things (pan),
 77 Text |            the son of Hermes, he is speech or the brother of speech,
 78 Text |            speech or the brother of speech, and that brother should
 79 Text |       figure, even so shall we make speech by the art of the namer


Crito
    Part
 80 Intro|      noblest and boldest figures of speech which occur in Plato.~


Euthydemus
    Part
 81 Text |        singularity of their mode of speech: this I say because you
 82 Text |       speaker or the subject of the speech, cannot be perfectly rendered
 83 Text |          speaker are the subject of speech.~‘There are three kinds
 84 Text |      affected myself, that I made a speech, in which I acknowledged


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 85 Text |           whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the


Gorgias
    Part
 86 Intro|         balanced or double forms of speech (compare Gorg.; Symp.).
 87 Intro|           veil of irony, he makes a speech, but, true to his character,
 88 Intro|            has learnt how to make a speech, but not how to answer a
 89 Intro|    apologizes for the length of his speech, which was necessary to
 90 Intro|             and seeming. Figures of speech are made the basis of arguments.
 91 Intro|             pressing his figures of speech or chains of argument; and
 92 Intro|        Adopting a similar figure of speech, Socrates would have them
 93 Intro|      ourselves:—What is thought but speech? What is feeling but rhetoric?
 94 Intro|           called after him: (5) the speech at the beginning of the
 95 Intro|            orator Lysias; the rival speech of Socrates and the recantation
 96 Intro|         somewhat laboured figure of speech intended to illustrate the
 97 Intro|           wave:—on these figures of speech the changes are rung many
 98 Intro|            into persons, figures of speech into realities. These myths
 99 Intro|            it is really a figure of speech in which the ‘spiritual
100 Intro|            may employ both modes of speech not improperly or inharmoniously.
101 Intro|          hand, any single figure of speech if too often repeated, or
102 Intro|         striking image or figure of speech is not forgotten, but is
103 Intro|            in the habit of opposing speech and writing, poetry and
104 Text |        taught how to make a capital speech, Gorgias; but he is not
105 Text |         occasion the longer mode of speech which Polus was attempting?
106 Text |          draughts; in some of these speech is pretty nearly co-extensive
107 Text |              and I myself heard the speech of Pericles when he advised
108 Text |             Polus, the prolixity of speech in which you indulged at
109 Text |            deprived of the power of speech—that would be hard indeed.
110 Text |       inconsistent in making a long speech, when I would not allow
111 Text |      question or the beginning of a speech?~POLUS: I am asking a question.~
112 Text |           is confirmed by your last speech. Well then, the inference
113 Text |            metre, there will remain speech? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES:
114 Text |            sure.~SOCRATES: And this speech is addressed to a crowd


Laws
    Book
115 2    |            his share of silence and speech, and drinking and music,
116 3    |         allowed him full liberty of speech, and gave honour to those
117 4    |             all men in the power of speech, and yet more in his temperance.
118 4    |             and proceed to make our speech to them?~Cleinias. Certainly.~
119 7    |         both in law and in ordinary speech to be the more womanly quality.
120 7    |           have given him liberty of speech we must let him go on until
121 8    |          about and about liberty of speech in poitry, ought to apply
122 8    |      specially honours plainness of speech, and will say outright what
123 9    |            plaintiff shall make one speech, and then the defendant
124 10   |           will make some irreverent speech of this sort:—”O inhabitants
125 11   |            unjust; and the power of speech which is thereby imparted,
126 12   |       guardians are not adequate in speech or action, and have no adequate
127 12   |      precise knowledge of virtue in speech and action than the many


Menexenus
    Part
128 Intro|       historian. The fiction of the speech having been invented by
129 Intro|             nothing’ and delivers a speech, generally pretends that
130 Intro|             clearly enough that the speech in the Menexenus like that
131 Text |         been poor, and an elaborate speech is made over him by a wise
132 Text |             who accompany me to the speech, I become suddenly conscious
133 Text |          repeated to me the sort of speech which he should deliver,
134 Text |            with me if I publish her speech.~MENEXENUS: Nay, Socrates,
135 Text |           Socrates, let us have the speech, whether Aspasia’s or any
136 Text |            us by all means have the speech.~SOCRATES: Truly I have
137 Text |           therefore, I assign in my speech the first place, and the
138 Text |          and what, if they had only speech, they would fain be saying,
139 Text |           be able to compose such a speech; she must be a rare one.~
140 Text |            you not grateful for her speech?~MENEXENUS: Yes, Socrates,


Meno
    Part
141 Intro|           and under many figures of speech is seeking to unfold. Poetry


Parmenides
    Part
142 Intro|           partaking’ is a figure of speech, really corresponding to
143 Intro|             forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the sphere
144 Intro|          language; in thought as in speech, we are dependent on the


Phaedo
    Part
145 Intro|            analogies and figures of speech which filled up the void
146 Intro|             The words or figures of speech which we use are not consistent


Phaedrus
    Part
147 Intro|         playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and
148 Intro|             he has delivered up the speech with which Lysias has regaled
149 Intro|          scents, they will read the speech of Lysias. The country is
150 Intro|              Phaedrus pulls out the speech and reads:—~The speech consists
151 Intro|          the speech and reads:—~The speech consists of a foolish paradox
152 Intro|            within him, could make a speech better than that of Lysias
153 Intro|          prospect of having another speech, and promises that he will
154 Intro|            shall never again hear a speech of Lysias unless he fulfils
155 Intro|              non-lover’ part of the speech had better be understood,
156 Intro|           no such definition in the speech of Lysias; nor is there
157 Intro|      regular divisions of the other speech, which was his own (and
158 Intro|         that writing is inferior to speech. For it is like a picture,
159 Intro|            to please Phaedrus.’ The speech of Lysias which has thrown
160 Intro|           false rhetoric; the first speech of Socrates, though an improvement,
161 Intro|          same character; his second speech, which is full of that higher
162 Intro|      another; and the true order of speech or writing proceeds accordingly.
163 Intro|            s higher aims.~The first speech is composed ‘in that balanced
164 Intro|            Pericles. That the first speech was really written by Lysias
165 Intro|            elsewhere.~In the second speech Socrates is exhibited as
166 Intro|           however, profess that the speech which he makes is not his
167 Intro|              the superiority of his speech seems to consist chiefly
168 Intro|           rhetoricians. Even in the speech of Lysias there is a germ
169 Intro|           Having improvised his own speech, which is based upon the
170 Intro|           an allegory, or figure of speech. For this reason, it is
171 Intro|           by Socrates in figures of speech which would not be used
172 Intro|           Plato to the paradox that speech is superior to writing,
173 Intro|             to have misled him. For speech and writing have really
174 Intro|          mind when he affirmed that speech was superior to writing.
175 Intro|            between the tone of this speech and the remark of Socrates
176 Intro|           which they introduce into speech and writing. He sees clearly
177 Text |            I do so long to hear his speech, that if you walk all the
178 Text |             I am very sure that the speech of Lysias was repeated to
179 Text |           the especial merit of the speech; for he omitted no topic
180 Text |           that I could make another speech as good as that of Lysias,
181 Text |         mark, and that I can make a speech from which all his arguments
182 Text |            make a longer and better speech than Lysias, and use other
183 Text |           unbosomed yourself of the speech; for here are we all alone,
184 Text |         with Lysias in an extempore speech! He is a master in his art
185 Text |           of the brave, the slow of speech of the speaker, the dull
186 Text |             going to make a similar speech about all the advantages
187 Text |       SOCRATES: That was a dreadful speech which you brought with you,
188 Text |           PHAEDRUS: Nothing, if the speech was really such as you describe.~
189 Text |       acknowledged by Lysias in his speech, nor by you in that other
190 Text |            nor by you in that other speech which you by a charm drew
191 Text |          account; and called him a ‘speech writer’ again and again.
192 Text |            the rules of writing and speech as we were proposing?~PHAEDRUS:
193 Text |           this, went and composed a speech in honour of an ass, whom
194 Text |          our notion of them, in the speech of Lysias which you have
195 Text |            your hand, and in my own speech?~PHAEDRUS: Nothing could
196 Text |          the first words of Lysias’ speech.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how
197 Text |         love at the beginning of my speech? for, having been in an
198 Text |         commencement of his lover’s speech did insist on our supposing
199 Text |            more about your friend’s speech lest I should give offence
200 Text |           will proceed to the other speech, which, as I think, is also
201 Text |           exordium, showing how the speech should begin, if I remember
202 Text |           agree in asserting that a speech should end in a recapitulation,
203 Text |             how to make a very long speech about a small matter, and
204 Text |           small matter, and a short speech about a great matter, and
205 Text |        matter, and also a sorrowful speech, or a terrible, or threatening
206 Text |            terrible, or threatening speech, or any other kind of speech,
207 Text |        speech, or any other kind of speech, and in teaching this fancies
208 Text |             by this or that kind of speech in this or that way,’ and
209 Text |          and all the other modes of speech which he has learned;—when,
210 Text |         this principle throughout a speech furnishes the whole art.~
211 Text |             another kind of word or speech far better than this, and
212 Text |             that the simple form of speech may be addressed to the


Philebus
    Part
213 Intro|            to know that subject. In speech again there are infinite
214 Text |            we perfect in the art of speech, but the knowledge of the
215 Text |           away from me the power of speech.~SOCRATES: We must keep


Protagoras
    Part
216 Intro|             to say, he makes a long speech not much to the point, which
217 Intro|             he cannot follow a long speech, and therefore he must beg
218 Intro|           the confident in a fluent speech.~Socrates renews the attack
219 Intro|           way; he also makes a long speech in defence of the poem of
220 Intro|            ludicrous opening of the speech in which the Lacedaemonians
221 Text |             in inventing articulate speech and names; and he also constructed
222 Text |              and so more fitted for speech and action; for the life
223 Text |           would not have missed the speech of Protagoras for a great
224 Text |           least particular of their speech, they go ringing on in a
225 Text |            can not only make a good speech, as he has already shown,
226 Text |           when any one makes a long speech to me I never remember what
227 Text |     discussions in shorter forms of speech as well as in longer, for
228 Text |        admits that he cannot make a speech—in this he yields the palm
229 Text |      instead of answering, making a speech at such length that most
230 Text |             and let go the reins of speech, that your words may be
231 Text |           to your favourite mode of speech, Socrates, ‘Let us reflect


The Republic
    Book
232 1    |              I said, he makes a set speech and we make another recounting
233 2    |           to help, while breath and speech remain to me; I am afraid
234 3    |            to imitate the action or speech of men or women who are
235 4    |            moment-to such a mode of speech we should object, and should
236 5    |            said. ~Then let us put a speech into the mouths of our opponents.


The Seventh Letter
    Part
237 Text |          who gives an exposition in speech or writing or in replies


The Sophist
    Part
238 Intro|            connexion in thought and speech, which Megarian or other
239 Intro|             either in the form of a speech or of question and answer.
240 Intro|          the necessity of examining speech, opinion, and imagination.~
241 Intro|   imagination.~And first concerning speech; let us ask the same question
242 Intro|             form. And thus not only speech, but thought and opinion
243 Intro|          only the process of silent speech, and opinion is only the
244 Intro|             All of them are akin to speech, and therefore, like speech,
245 Intro|         speech, and therefore, like speech, admit of true and false.
246 Intro|           to be as much a figure of speech as the old notion of a creator
247 Text |             which is concerned with speech and the knowledge of virtue.~
248 Text |             false opinion and false speech are possible, for to think
249 Text |            region of thought and in speech.~THEAETETUS: That is quite
250 Text |       STRANGER: Are not thought and speech the same, with this exception,
251 Text |            and is audible is called speech?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
252 Text |           know that there exists in speech...~THEAETETUS: What exists?~
253 Text |              that false opinion and speech have been discovered sooner
254 Text |          has been shown to be false speech and false opinion, there
255 Text |       multitude in public in a long speech, and the dissembler, who


The Statesman
    Part
256 Intro|            mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while
257 Intro|         furnish us with a figure of speech, which we can afterwards
258 Intro|           be deluded by a figure of speech. The ideal of the Greek
259 Text |      principle of the mean, both in speech and action, and is not this
260 Text |           which governs the arts of speech and persuasion.~STRANGER:


The Symposium
    Part
261 Intro|       tribute to the god. Agathon’s speech follows:—~He will speak
262 Intro|     intermediate power (compare the speech of Eryximachus) who conveys
263 Intro|          mats at doors (compare the speech of Pausanias); like his
264 Intro|             The company applaud the speech of Socrates, and Aristophanes
265 Intro|      philosophy blend together. The speech of Phaedrus is also described
266 Intro|         argument into the form of a speech (compare Gorg., Protag.).
267 Intro|            Gorg., Protag.). But his speech is really the narrative
268 Intro|         Agathon instead of making a speech, and will only speak at
269 Intro|             sophistical ring in the speech of Phaedrus, which recalls
270 Intro|             which recalls the first speech in imitation of Lysias,
271 Intro|            still more marked in the speech of Pausanias which follows;
272 Intro|      disapproved by barbarians. His speech is ‘more words than matter,’
273 Intro|            is not yet realized.~The speech of Agathon is conceived
274 Intro|     approval of Socrates. It is the speech of the tragic poet and a
275 Intro|      present and youthful ever. The speech may be compared with that
276 Intro|           may be compared with that speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus
277 Intro|            lengthened harangue, the speech takes the form of a dialogue
278 Intro|       follows immediately after the speech of Socrates; one is the
279 Intro|             the loves of man in the speech of Pausanias. He does not
280 Intro|            also used as a figure of speech which no one interpreted
281 Text |         left to right, shall make a speech in honour of Love. Let him
282 Text |        something like this, was the speech of Phaedrus; and some other
283 Text |           me, as I fear that in the speech which I am about to make,
284 Text |     Eryximachus, for I thought your speech charming, and did I not
285 Text |          should not proceed with my speech, as I shall have many other
286 Text |           gods and men. Such is the speech, Phaedrus, half-playful,
287 Text |      Gorgias, and at the end of his speech I fancied that Agathon was
288 Text |            simply to turn me and my speech into stone, as Homer says (
289 Text |       further what you said in your speech, or if you do not remember
290 Text |        saying.~You made a very good speech, Agathon, replied Socrates;
291 Text |           such an one he is full of speech about virtue and the nature
292 Text |            frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing
293 Text |        Socrates had made to his own speech, when suddenly there was
294 Text |            us in turn should make a speech in praise of love, and as
295 Text |       comparison of a drunken man’s speech with those of sober men


Theaetetus
    Part
296 Intro|              And Protagoras, in the speech attributed to him, never
297 Intro|            the probable effect of a speech than an ordinary person?
298 Intro|         difficulty under figures of speech, but these, although telling
299 Intro|            reflection of thought in speech—a sort of nominalism ‘La
300 Intro|           he thinks; therefore mere speech cannot be knowledge. And
301 Intro|       flavouring a sauce or fawning speech’; or the remarkable expression, ‘
302 Intro|          from them. Mere figures of speech have unconsciously influenced
303 Intro|          mind’s eye, are figures of speech transferred from one to
304 Intro|           This is another figure of speech, which might be appropriately
305 Intro|          from the active faculty of speech: they receive impressions,
306 Intro|           differences of articulate speech and of musical notes? Yet
307 Intro|             Yet how small a part of speech or of music is produced
308 Intro|            of our ordinary modes of speech is disturbing to the mind.
309 Intro|            should vary our forms of speech, lest they should degenerate
310 Intro|            be made about figures of speech. They fill up the vacancy
311 Intro|          into use, and the river of speech finds out the dried-up channel.~
312 Text |             banish from writing and speech, or you talk about the reason
313 Text |          probability and figures of speech in matters of such importance.
314 Text |       flavouring a sauce or fawning speech; the other character is
315 Text |           expression of the mind in speech; the second, which has just


Timaeus
    Part
316 Intro|          translates into figures of speech. He has no implements of
317 Intro|             supplied with graces of speech, in their erratic way of
318 Intro|           the like end the gifts of speech and hearing were bestowed
319 Intro|         necessity, and the river of speech is the best of rivers. Still,
320 Intro|          their hearts in figures of speech which to them were not figures,
321 Intro|             fill up with figures of speech the void of knowledge.~The
322 Text |             same may be affirmed of speech and hearing: they have been
323 Text |             is the principal end of speech, whereto it most contributes.
324 Text |          the body; but the river of speech, which flows out of a man