The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             the heroes of the Trojan war in another world. On the
  2 Text |              that no man who goes to war with you or any other multitude,
  3 Text |             and live. For neither in war nor yet at law ought I or


Charmides
    Part
  4 PreS |             and English are often at war with one another. In framing
  5 PreS |             history, like the Trojan war or the legend of Arthur,
  6 Text |            the art of the general in war?~Quite so.~And yet, my dear


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|           from Polemarchus (chief in war), or Eupolemus (good warrior);
  8 Intro|              unknown length in which war and conquest were running
  9 Text |            and Polemarchus (chief in war) and Eupolemus (good warrior);
 10 Text |            appropriate to the God of war.~HERMOGENES: Very true.~


Critias
    Part
 11 Intro|             prefigured by the Trojan war to the mind of Herodotus,
 12 Intro|             told by the priests. The war of which he was about to
 13 Intro|      barbarians who took part in the war will be dealt with as they
 14 Intro|           deliberate in common about war, and the king was not to
 15 Text |          which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken
 16 Text |              dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe.
 17 Text |           and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other
 18 Text |              their narrative of that war mentioned most of the names
 19 Text |          required to furnish for the war the sixth portion of a war-chariot,
 20 Text |           deliberate in common about war and other matters, giving


Euthydemus
    Part
 21 Intro|     everywhere else, Plato is making war against the philosophers
 22 Text |           such is their skill in the war of words, that they can
 23 Text |              for they know all about war,—all that a good general
 24 Text |           And if you were engaged in war, in whose company would
 25 Text |             he wants it; or to go to war armed rather than unarmed.~
 26 Text |           Delphi.~And seeing that in war to have arms is a good thing,


Euthyphro
    Part
 27 Text |              not say that victory in war is the chief of them?~EUTHYPHRO:


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 28 Intro|            must enter into peace and war; and he who advises the
 29 Text |              them?~ALCIBIADES: About war, Socrates, or about peace,
 30 Text |             whom they ought to go to war, and in what manner?~ALCIBIADES:
 31 Text |              And they ought to go to war with those against whom
 32 Text |           whom it is better to go to war?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 33 Text |            what is the excellence of war and peace; as the more musical
 34 Text |             to the more excellent in war and peace?~ALCIBIADES: But
 35 Text |            making peace and going to war with those against whom
 36 Text |              whom you ought to go to war? To what does the word refer?~
 37 Text |        arrive at the point of making war, and what name we give them?~
 38 Text |        advise the Athenians to go to war with the just or with the
 39 Text |           person did intend to go to war with the just, he would
 40 Text |         SOCRATES: He would not go to war, because it would be unlawful?~
 41 Text |           which I spoke, in going to war or not going to war with
 42 Text |         going to war or not going to war with those against whom
 43 Text |          ought or ought not to go to war?~ALCIBIADES: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
 44 Text |           such an extent as to go to war and kill one another for
 45 Text |            the following:—In time of war, men have been wounded or
 46 Text |           know that our city goes to war now and then with the Lacedaemonians
 47 Text |           and he has a mind to go to war with your son—would she


Gorgias
    Part
 48 Intro|         himself, cannot safely go to war with the whole world, and


Ion
    Part
 49 Intro|              Imagination is often at war with reason and fact. The
 50 Text |           other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and


Laches
    Part
 51 Intro|       describes as the gymnastics of war—useful when the ranks are
 52 Intro|              discovery in the art of war (Aristoph. Aves); the other
 53 Text |         which our own fathers did in war and peace—in the management
 54 Text |      advantage over other nations in war, would have discovered this
 55 Text |             firstrate in the arts of war. Further, Lysimachus, I
 56 Text |           ever been distinguished in war,—there has been a sort of
 57 Text |           only who are courageous in war, but who are courageous
 58 Text |           case of one who endures in war, and is willing to fight,
 59 Text |       inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything.~LACHES:
 60 Text |             or victory, or defeat in war, or in any sort of contest;
 61 Text |            or is likely to happen in war: and accordingly the law


Laws
    Book
 62 1    |             been made with a view to war, and the legislator appears
 63 1    | understanding that all are always at war with one another; and if
 64 1    |          with one another; and if in war there ought to be common
 65 1    |             is in a natural state of war with every other, not indeed
 66 1    |       arranged by him with a view to war; in giving them he was under
 67 1    |          conquer all other states in war: am I right in supposing
 68 1    |       village will there be the same war of family against family,
 69 1    |           this shows that there is a war against ourselves going
 70 1    |              would be the reverse of war.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 71 1    |            man have in view external war, or that kind of intestine
 72 1    |            or that kind of intestine war called civil, which no one,
 73 1    |            he prefer that this civil war should be terminated by
 74 1    |            To be sure.~Athenian. But war, whether external or civil,
 75 1    |         orders peace for the sake of war, and not war for the sake
 76 1    |             the sake of war, and not war for the sake of peace.~Cleinias.
 77 1    |             I am greatly mistaken if war is not the entire aim and
 78 1    |             men was most eager about war: Well, he says, “I sing
 79 1    |       bestowed on those who excel in war sufficiently proves that
 80 1    |          that there are two kinds of war; or what would you say?
 81 1    |           replying quite truly, that war is of two kinds one which
 82 1    |             universally called civil war, and is as we were just
 83 1    |            when you praise and blame war in this high–flown strain,
 84 1    |        blaming, and to which kind of war are you referring? I suppose
 85 1    |           that you must mean foreign war, if I am to judge from expressions
 86 1    |              in external and foreign war; and he must admit this.~
 87 1    |             a more difficult kind of war, much in the same degree
 88 1    |        having all virtue. But in the war of which Tyrtaeus speaks,
 89 1    |          Crete mainly with a view to war.~Cleinias. What ought we
 90 1    |            to men in diseases, or in war, or poverty, or the opposite
 91 1    |            legislator with a view to war?~Megillus. Yes.~Athenian.
 92 1    |            now, that when men are at war the leader ought to be a
 93 1    |             foe meets foe in time of war, but of one who is to regulate
 94 1    |              he will give victory in war to his followers, which
 95 1    |             insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has
 96 1    |             years before the Persian war, in accordance with the
 97 1    |          gives victory and safety in war? For there are two things
 98 3    |     Certainly.~Athenian. Faction and war would also have died out
 99 3    |          Athenian. Those cities made war against Troy—by sea as well
100 3    |           their insolence the Trojan war, relied upon the power of
101 3    |              have been invincible in war.~Megillus. No doubt.~Athenian.
102 3    |             order all with a view to war. And to this I replied that
103 3    |              one was waging a mighty war against Lacedaemon, and
104 3    |              in connection with that war which are far from honourable;
105 3    |            detained by the Messenian war, which was then going on,
106 4    |              as you both agreed, was war; and I replied that such
107 4    |            days they had no ships of war as they now have, nor was
108 4    |     conquered by a superior power in war. This, however, which is
109 4    |             of ways. The violence of war and the hard necessity of
110 5    |            other victory of peace or war, desires to win the palm
111 5    |             will furnish numbers for war and peace, and for all contracts
112 5    |              disease, or a plague of war, and the inhabitants become
113 6    |              on the occasion of some war or other similar danger,
114 6    |           years. Let a man go out to war from twenty to sixty years,
115 7    |           useless and unsuitable for war, and do not deserve to have
116 7    |          omit suitable imitations of war in our choruses; here in
117 7    |           view to the necessities of war, and to festive occasions:
118 7    |          such time as they go out to war, to make processions and
119 7    |             useful both in peace and war, and are beneficial alike
120 7    |          their sports, for they deem war a serious. pursuit, which
121 7    |         degree worth, speaking of in war, which is nevertheless deemed
122 7    |        attend the schools the art of war and the art of music, and
123 7    |        participating in the toils of war; and if there were any necessity
124 7    |              required with a view to war and the management of house
125 7    |           and carry on operations of war outside, that those who
126 7    |          kind is of those engaged in war and vehement action, and
127 7    |             proceed to the dances of war and peace, for with these
128 7    |            nobler sort, the dance of war which he called the Pyrrhic,
129 7    |             the hunting after him in war, and there is often a hunting
130 8    |               but if evil, a life of war within and without. Wherefore
131 8    |           citizens ought to practise war—not in time of war, but
132 8    |          practise war—not in time of war, but rather while they are
133 8    |         every respect the reality of war; fighting with boxing–gloves
134 8    |          efficient manner the art of war, or any other noble aim,
135 8    |       rightly practising the arts of war:—Granted; and now tell me,
136 8    |          kind, or animals for use in war, let the commanders of the
137 9    |     misfortune happens to any one in war, or military exercises,
138 9    |              shall take his place in war; or, if he refuse, he shall
139 10   |              the diseases which make war upon the body, or to husbandmen
140 11   |            And in this case also the war is against two enemies—wealth
141 11   |            forget the other craft of war, in which generals and tacticians
142 11   |              of any noble service in war, does not make the due return
143 12   |               Now for expeditions of war much consideration and many
144 12   |            of his own motion, but in war and in peace he should look
145 12   |             salvation and victory in war. And we ought in time of
146 12   |           follows:—He shall serve in war who is on the roll or appointed
147 12   |           offer up the temple of any war–god whom he likes, adding
148 12   |            throwing away his arms in war, no general or military
149 12   |          payment of contributions in war—in all these cases, first
150 12   |        abroad on an expedition or in war, not to be included among
151 12   |              that which is gained in war; and when they come home
152 12   |            reputation, especially in war, if he is to exhibit to
153 12   |            if any one makes peace or war with another on his own
154 12   |         fraction of the City declare war or peace against any, the
155 12   |            again, are instruments of war; but of wood let a man bring
156 12   |           used for the adornments of war. The most divine of gifts
157 12   |           victory and superiority in war, and do not the physician


Menexenus
    Part
158 Intro|             later times. The Persian war usually formed the centre
159 Intro|             of Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia is
160 Intro|              Athens and Boeotia is a war of liberation; the Athenians
161 Text |             praise those who died in war, and all our ancestors who
162 Text |            transports and vessels of war, and 300 ships, and Datis
163 Text |    destruction of Hellas.~And so the war against the barbarians was
164 Text |        engaged against her will in a war with the Hellenes. On the
165 Text |               On the breaking out of war, our citizens met the Lacedaemonians
166 Text |              first after the Persian war who fought on behalf of
167 Text |        Afterwards there was a mighty war, in which all the Hellenes
168 Text |         considering that they should war with the fellow-countrymen
169 Text |          with barbarians they should war to the death. Worthy of
170 Text |             they also who waged this war, and are here interred;
171 Text |              Athenians in the former war with the barbarians, that
172 Text |           their victory in the civil war with Hellas, in which they
173 Text |          they had been allied in the war against the barbarians.
174 Text |         peace there followed a third war, which was of a terrible
175 Text |              desperate nature of the war, is that the other Hellenes,
176 Text |             she was exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded
177 Text |           won for us, but the entire war was decided by them, and
178 Text |          abroad, but there sprang up war at home; and, if men are
179 Text |           are destined to have civil war, no one could have desired
180 Text |        moderation did they order the war against the tyrants in Eleusis,
181 Text |          compelled, entered into the war, and built walls and ships,
182 Text |  Lacedaemonians growing weary of the war at sea, asked of us, as
183 Text |             better, for we ended the war without the loss of our
184 Text |              quit of us. Yet in this war we lost many brave men,
185 Text |         children of those who die in war; the highest authority is


Parmenides
    Part
186 Intro|    abstraction of the Megarians. The war is carried on against the


Phaedrus
    Part
187 Intro|               which are generally at war with one another; and the
188 Text |            harmony and then again at war, and sometimes the one,
189 Text |            pass on. Such a person in war, or in any of the great
190 Text |            possession, especially in war, and you may get on his


Philebus
    Part
191 Intro|          quarrel, an estrangement, a war. ‘How can I contribute to
192 Intro|             logic, that ‘In going to war for mind I must have weapons
193 Text |            easy one. For in going to war in the cause of mind, who


Protagoras
    Part
194 Intro|              cowards refuse to go to war:—because they form a wrong
195 Intro|          courageous willing to go to war?—because they form a right
196 Text |              enable them to carry on war against the animals: food
197 Text |      government, of which the art of war is a part. After a while
198 Text |       weakness to play the coward in war or on any other occasion.
199 Text |            himself in an attitude of war. Seeing this, I minded my
200 Text |              awful’ disease, ‘awful’ war, ‘awful’ poverty, meaning
201 Text |              love;—not even the gods war against necessity.’~All
202 Text |               are unwilling to go to war, which is a good and honourable


The Republic
    Book
203 1    |             his friend? ~In going to war against the one and in making
204 1    |           use in peace as well as in war? ~Yes. ~Like husbandry for
205 2    |          having an eye to poverty or war. ~But, said Glaucon, interposing,
206 2    |                And so we shall go to war, Glaucon. Shall we not? ~
207 2    |           determining as yet whether war does good or harm, thus
208 2    |          that now we have discovered war to be derived from causes
209 2    |           true, he said. ~But is not war an art? ~Certainly. ~And
210 2    |          should be well done. But is war an art so easily acquired
211 2    |         shield or other implement of war become a good fighter all
212 2    |             Pelops, or of the Trojan War or on any similar theme,
213 3    |     Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel
214 4    |           city will be able to go to war, especially against an enemy
215 4    |            deprived of the sinews of war. ~There would certainly
216 4    |               I replied, in going to war with one such enemy; but
217 4    |        therefore come and help us in war, and take the spoils of
218 4    |            of the rich; these are at war with one another; and in
219 4    |         which fights and goes out to war on the State's behalf. ~
220 4    |          that anger at times goes to war with desire, as though they
221 5    |       gymnastics and also the art of war, which they must practise
222 5    |            at all? And is the art of war one of those arts in which
223 5    |           them share in the toils of war and the defence of their
224 5    |             the city or going out to war; they are to keep watch
225 5    |    difficulty, I said, in seeing how war will be carried on by them. ~
226 5    |             to help and be of use in war, and to wait upon their
227 5    |            which may often happen in war, how great the danger is!
228 5    |            soldiers do or do not see war in the days of their youth
229 5    |           our children spectators of war; but we must also contrive
230 5    |             be blind to the risks of war, but to know, as far as
231 5    |                Still, the dangers of war cannot be always foreseen;
232 5    |             them on horseback to see war: the horses must not be
233 5    |         right, he said. ~Next, as to war; what are to be the relations
234 5    |             a man dies gloriously in war shall we not say, in the
235 5    |             the names "discord" and "war," and I imagine that there
236 5    |        discord, and only the second, war. ~That is a very proper
237 5    |          described by us as being at war when they fight, and by
238 5    |          antagonism should be called war; but when Hellenes fight
239 5    |          which is not to be called a war? ~Certainly not. ~Then they
240 5    |          they know that the guilt of war is always confined to a
241 7    |              quality? ~Usefulness in war. ~Yes, if possible. ~There
242 7    |                Yes. ~Then the art of war partakes of them? ~To be
243 7    |        philosophical; for the man of war must learn the art of number
244 7    |            geometry which relates to war; for in pitching a camp
245 8    |        education and the pursuits of war and peace are also to be
246 8    |             are causes of hatred and war. This the muses affirm to
247 8    |           themselves were engaged in war and in keeping a watch against
248 8    |             are by nature fitted for war rather than peace; and in
249 8    |         incapable of carrying on any war. Either they arm the multitude,
250 8    |            The man, then, will be at war with himself; he will be
251 8    |          State falls sick, and is at war with herself; and may be
252 8    |         unless you like, or to go to war when the rest go to war,
253 8    |              war when the rest go to war, or to be at peace when
254 8    |              faction, and he goes to war with himself. ~It must be
255 8    |              always stirring up some war or other, in order that
256 8    |          must be always getting up a war. ~He must. ~Now he begins
257 9    |             probably want them for a war; and if there is no war,
258 9    |              war; and if there is no war, they stay at home and do
259 10   |               Well, but is there any war on record which was carried


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
260 Text |              to time advise us about war and peace, or the building
261 Text |          person who knows the art of war, but does not know whether
262 Text |        whether it is better to go to war or for how long?~ALCIBIADES:
263 Text |         spoke, who knew how to go to war and how to kill, as well
264 Text |           and Lacedaemonians were at war, our city lost every battle


The Seventh Letter
    Part
265 Text |             will in place of a state war; in my conflict with the
266 Text |            time there was a state of war in Sicily. Dionysios said
267 Text |         unintelligible and ferocious war cry. Dionysios took fright


The Sophist
    Part
268 Intro|        deterred from carrying on the war with weapons fair or unfair
269 Intro|            Disease is the discord or war of opposite principles in
270 Intro|             to earth, and carry on a war like that of the giants,
271 Text |               STRANGER: And when the war is one of words, it may
272 Text |           that at one time there was war between certain of them;
273 Text |             then again plurality and war, by reason of a principle
274 Text |              appears to be a sort of war of Giants and Gods going


The Statesman
    Part
275 Intro|              violence among them, or war, or devouring of one another.
276 Intro|              whether we are to go to war, is higher than the art
277 Intro|              always wanting to go to war, even when the odds are
278 Intro|             during the Peloponnesian War, of Athens under the Thirty
279 Text |         devouring of one another, or war or quarrel among them; and
280 Text |          advise when we are to go to war, or to make peace, the same
281 Text |            terrible the whole art of war is, can we imagine any which
282 Text |         parts of virtue which are at war with their kindred in some
283 Text |      inciting their country to go to war, owing to their excessive


The Symposium
    Part
284 Intro|         Cronos when the gods were at war. The things that were done
285 Intro|             conqueror of the lord of war. And he is wise too; for
286 Text |       ungrace and love are always at war with one another. The fairness
287 Text |             courage, even the God of War is no match for him; he
288 Text |              often happen in time of war, he was superior not only
289 Text |              who is never touched in war; those only are pursued


Theaetetus
    Part
290 Intro|           time during the Corinthian war, between the years 390-387.
291 Intro|           variance with sense and at war with one another.~The want
292 Intro|             their ideas,—they are at war with fixed principles.’
293 Intro|            his lines we should be at war with ordinary language and
294 Text |           when they are in perils of war, or of the sea, or of sickness,
295 Text |           not? at any rate, no small war is raging about it, and
296 Text |            few.~THEODORUS: No small, war, indeed, for in Ionia the
297 Text |          stationary; for they are at war with the stationary, and


Timaeus
    Part
298 Intro|              natural courses, but at war with themselves and destructive
299 Intro|             his narrative? Could any war between Athens and the Island
300 Intro|          story consist except in the war between the two rival powers
301 Text |              to them both in time of war and in their ordinary life.~
302 Text |              and how she went out to war in a becoming manner, and
303 Text |         becoming manner, and when at war showed by the greatness
304 Text |           they do and say in time of war, when they are fighting
305 Text |       engaged our city in a suitable war, you of all men living could
306 Text |           now is Athens was first in war and in every way the best
307 Text |              who was a lover both of war and of wisdom, selected
308 Text |              nature are by nature at war, and force themselves apart;
309 Text |        themselves apart; and to this war and convulsion the name
310 Text |              natural courses, but at war with themselves, because
311 Text |           which there has been civil war; whence arise diarrhoeas