The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|     accuser, of whom he makes very light. Also there is a touch of


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreF |          the unequal conditions of light and knowledge under which
  3 PreS |          modern philosophy throw a light upon one another: but they
  4 PreS |       Afterwards comes the remoter light which they cast on one another.
  5 PreS |           matter truly; but what a light does it throw on the character
  6 Intro|           they all tend to throw a light on the nature of temperance,
  7 Text |       thing, and the heavy and the light another. Do you admit that?~
  8 Text |         wisdom, viewed in this new light merely as a knowledge of


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|        dialogue hardly derives any light from Plato’s other writings,
 10 Intro|           his prancing steeds, the light admixture of quotations
 11 Intro|  Hephaestus, again, is the lord of light—o tou phaeos istor. This
 12 Intro| contraction of selaenoneoaeia, the light (selas) which is ever old
 13 Intro|          and throws some degree of light upon a dark corner of the
 14 Intro|            knowledge.~The greatest light is thrown upon the nature
 15 Intro|      observation, but only the dim light which makes such observation
 16 Intro|        nous elthon diekosmese: the light of reason lighted up all
 17 Intro|           however great may be the light which language throws upon
 18 Intro|           be said to have thrown a light upon all other sciences
 19 Intro|            brings back the dawning light from one end of the earth
 20 Text |         look? Consider this in the light of the previous instances:
 21 Text |            of names can be no such light matter as you fancy, or
 22 Text |          you fancy, or the work of light or chance persons; and Cratylus
 23 Text |        Cymindis—do you deem that a light matter? Or about Batieia
 24 Text |            of the princely lord of light (Phaeos istora)?~HERMOGENES:
 25 Text |         that the moon receives her light from the sun.~HERMOGENES:
 26 Text |       selas (brightness) and phos (light) have much the same meaning?~
 27 Text |    HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES: This light about the moon is always
 28 Text |         revolution always adds new light, and there is the old light
 29 Text |        light, and there is the old light of the previous month.~HERMOGENES:
 30 Text |         SOCRATES: And as she has a light which is always old and
 31 Text |               that which brings to light the plants and growths of
 32 Text |       discover for yourself by the light of the previous examples,—
 33 Text |            imeirousi) and love the light which comes after the darkness,
 34 Text |           bad sense, viewed in the light of their etymologies will


Critias
    Part
 35 Intro|      citadel, flashed with the red light of orichalcum. In the interior
 36 Text |       island which then beheld the light of the sun, brought forth
 37 Text |      citadel, flashed with the red light of orichalcum. The palaces
 38 Text |          ten princes first saw the light, and thither the people


Crito
    Part
 39 Intro|       character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher,


Euthydemus
    Part
 40 Intro|            and instructive for the light which they shed on the history
 41 Intro|         Bacon and Mill have shed a light far and wide on the realms
 42 Text |    something done or spoken by the light of this newly-acquired knowledge;


Euthyphro
    Part
 43 Intro|        crime appears to him in the light of a duty, whoever may be
 44 Text |        controversy about heavy and light by resorting to a weighing


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 45 Text |         yet once more in a further light: he who acts honourably
 46 Text |         have got his wisdom by the light of nature, but to have associated
 47 Text |            I know well that by the light of nature I shall get the


Gorgias
    Part
 48 Intro|          great works receive a new light from a new and original
 49 Intro|         irony which touches with a light hand both his personal vices (
 50 Intro|          formularies, and then the light of natural justice shines
 51 Intro|       things,’ have found a ray of light in his writings. But he
 52 Intro|         and their lives may shed a light on many dark places both
 53 Text |          wrong; he should bring to light the iniquity and not conceal
 54 Text |           be lord over us, and the light of natural justice would
 55 Text |           at the matter in another light, which could hardly, I think,


Ion
    Part
 56 Intro|          are too much for the ‘dry light’ of intelligence which mingles
 57 Text |            true. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing,


Laches
    Part
 58 Text |            when they came upon the light shields of the Persians,


Laws
    Book
 59 1    |         have runners you must have light arms—no one can carry a
 60 1    |        convenient because they are light. Now all these regulations
 61 1    |       principles you have thrown a light upon the argument, and will
 62 4    |    unbecoming word to them; for of light and fleeting words the penalty
 63 4    |            of the subject into the light of day?~Cleinias. Exactly.~
 64 5    |           to one another. When not light but darkness and ignorance
 65 6    |          generals; but captains of light troops, or archers, or any
 66 6    |            of public tables in the light of day, and just that part
 67 6    |          when dragged out into the light they will exert their utmost
 68 7    |            bring my wares into the light of day, for I acknowledge
 69 7    |          when completed, may throw light on our present perplexity.~
 70 7    |        weapons, and the use of the light shield, and all fighting
 71 8    |     counterpart in a combat of the light armed; they shall contend
 72 8    |         contend with bows and with light shields and with javelins
 73 9    |        done by violence and in the light of day, and another kind
 74 10   |        hard and soft and heavy and light; and the great and primitive
 75 10   |         about in a chariot to give light to men, or acting from without
 76 11   |           foul names, out of words light as air, in very deed the
 77 12   |            rest of the world is no light matter; for the many are
 78 12   |           be of use and will throw light upon the examination, or


Lysis
    Part
 79 Text |        they speak of friends in no light or trivial manner, but God


Meno
    Part
 80 Intro|            heaven, will shed their light upon one another.~
 81 Text |        again from beneath into the light of the sun above, and these


Parmenides
    Part
 82 Intro|           difficulty by a flash of light, which is indeed the true
 83 Intro|         this question will throw a light upon all the others. Nothing
 84 Intro|            It throws an indistinct light upon Aristotle, and makes
 85 Text |           will always be coming to light, and if that be like anything


Phaedo
    Part
 86 Intro|        eyes and ears, and with the light of the mind only to behold
 87 Intro|            mind only to behold the light of truth. All the evils
 88 Intro|            body can she behold the light of truth.~Simmias and Cebes
 89 Intro|          with blinking eyes in the light of another world? But our
 90 Intro|          evil when regarded in the light of the future. Good and
 91 Intro|          body seemed to be full of light; when the mind was clear
 92 Intro|            particle of fire, or of light, or air, or water; or of
 93 Intro|       Dialogue must be read in the light of the situation. And first
 94 Text |          which will probably throw light on our present inquiry if
 95 Text |          reason, but with the very light of the mind in her own clearness
 96 Text |        know of ourselves the clear light everywhere, which is no
 97 Text |         which is no other than the light of truth.’ For the impure
 98 Text |     consider the matter in another light: When the soul and the body
 99 Text |           true heaven and the true light and the true earth. For
100 Text |       their own, and are seen like light gleaming amid the diversity
101 Text |            and they are set in the light of day and are large and


Phaedrus
    Part
102 Intro|        apparitions shining in pure light, herself pure, and not as
103 Intro|            them at the fountain of light. When they have attained
104 Intro|          chariot to the regions of light and the house of the goddess
105 Intro|        many ages without relief or light. We may say that this, like
106 Intro|            author, and very little light is thrown by him on real
107 Text |          air fell with the dark or light side uppermost.) has fallen
108 Text |          perceive. For there is no light of justice or temperance
109 Text |          we beheld shining in pure light, pure ourselves and not
110 Text |            the end comes, they are light and winged for flight, having
111 Text |            earth, but they live in light always; happy companions
112 Text |          found, and draws into the light of day the likenesses and
113 Text |        important question into the light of day, which is: What power
114 Text |      endeavouring to draw into the light of day, what would they
115 Text |      consider this matter in every light, and see whether we cannot


Philebus
    Part
116 Intro| illustrated by sense, the greatest light appeared to be thrown on
117 Intro|           the eyes blinking at the light in the Republic. To this
118 Intro|           as ‘great’ and ‘small,’ ‘light’ and ‘heavy,’ or how there
119 Intro|          are seen in the temperate light of day. All of them have
120 Intro|         been obscure without their light. Why should we endeavour
121 Text |           let us bring them to the light in the hope that, in the
122 Text |           them as great and small, light and heavy, and in ten thousand
123 Text |           and therewith a blaze of light; and the ancients, who were


Protagoras
    Part
124 Text |      gladly show us to them in the light of his admirers, I said:
125 Text |            of hope that they would light upon virtue of their own
126 Text |       about to bring them into the light of day, they ordered Prometheus
127 Text |           was to go forth into the light of day; and Prometheus,
128 Text |         And who when fighting with light shields—the peltasts or


The Republic
    Book
129 1    |            man old age cannot be a light burden, nor can a bad rich
130 1    |            examine further, for no light matter is at stake, nothing
131 2    |           any of his deeds come to light, and who can force his way
132 2    |             like bees on the wing, light on every flower, and from
133 2    |           may be expected to throw light on the greater inquiry which
134 3    |    requiring only that they should light a fire, and not involving
135 4    |           has been made habitable, light a candle and search, and
136 4    |       justice should be brought to light and temperance lost sight
137 4    |     together may possibly strike a light in which justice will shine
138 5    |         into being from seeing the light; and if any force a way
139 5    | possibility of life and behold the light of day." Such was the thought,
140 5    |         great and small, heavy and light, as they are termed, will
141 5    |         not-being, or more full of light and existence than being. ~
142 6    |             inasmuch as they never light up again. ~But what ought
143 6    |          they view him in this new light, they will surely change
144 6    |             Of that which you term light, I replied. ~True, he said. ~
145 6    |          difference of nature; for light is their bond, and light
146 6    |           light is their bond, and light is no ignoble thing? ~Nay,
147 6    |        this element? Whose is that light which makes the eye to see
148 6    |        toward objects on which the light of day is no longer shining,
149 6    |          in the previous instance, light and sight may be truly said
150 6    |      ludicrous earnestness: By the light of heaven, how amazing! ~
151 7    |            a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the
152 7    |           walk and look toward the light, he will suffer sharp pains;
153 7    |            to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain
154 7    |             When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled,
155 7    |         then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars
156 7    |         better than the sun or the light of the sun by day? ~Certainly. ~
157 7    |     another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the
158 7    |            the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun,
159 7    |     beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light
160 7    |           light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and
161 7    |      either from coming out of the light or from going into the light,
162 7    |       light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind'
163 7    |            is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one
164 7    |          comes from below into the light, there will be more reason
165 7    |      returns from above out of the light into the den. ~That, he
166 7    |           to turn from darkness to light without the whole body,
167 7    |            another in the heavenly light? ~Impossible, he answered;
168 7    |       distance, and by painting in light and shade. ~No, I said,
169 7    |           again, is the meaning of light and heavy, if that which
170 7    |            heavy, if that which is light is also heavy, and that
171 7    |           and that which is heavy, light? ~Yes, he said, these intimations
172 7    |        thinking mind, intending to light up the chaos, was compelled
173 7    |         would some day emerge into light. ~Yes, he said, there is
174 7    |   discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without
175 7    |           to the images and to the light, and the ascent from the
176 7    |         animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are able
177 7    |        shadows of images cast by a light of fire, which compared
178 7    |          faculty which is the very light of the body to the sight
179 7    |          the soul to the universal light which lightens all things,
180 9    |        which may, I think, throw a light upon this subject. ~What
181 9    |             which exaggerates both light and shade, and so they implant
182 10   |            Suppose now that by the light of the examples just offered
183 10   |      conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious
184 10   |      argument of which you make so light. Listen, then. ~I am attending. ~
185 10   |           see from above a line of light, straight as a column, extending
186 10   |         there, in the midst of the light, they saw the ends of the
187 10   |          down from above: for this light is the belt of heaven, and
188 10   |           colored by the reflected light of the seventh; the second
189 10   |             Venus) has the whitest light; the fourth (Mars) is reddish;


The Seventh Letter
    Part
190 Text |            would have sent forth a light to all men, Greeks and barbarians,
191 Text |         lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled
192 Text |          nature of things into the light for all to see? But I do


The Sophist
    Part
193 Intro|         and wealth; or, again, the light and graceful touch with
194 Intro|          which is just seen by the light of dawn he admits that he
195 Intro|          in the most discreditable light.~Nor need we seriously consider
196 Intro|           a common nature, and the light of a common intelligence.~
197 Intro|            may proceed to bring to light the nature of the Sophist.
198 Intro|           And we may hope that any light which is thrown upon the
199 Intro| philosopher is dark from excess of light. And now, leaving him, we
200 Intro|            of growth as well as of light. In forms of thought which
201 Intro|        Republic, ‘There is nothing light which is not heavy, or great
202 Intro|        shine only by the reflected light of other abstractions? May
203 Intro|         great thinker has thrown a light on many parts of human knowledge,
204 Text |    THEODORUS: You have happened to light, Socrates, almost on the
205 Text |        responds pleasantly, and is light in hand; if not, I would
206 Text |        what he is and bring him to light in a discussion; for at
207 Text |          done at night, and by the light of a fire, and is by the
208 Text |           talked to us in rather a light and easy strain.~THEAETETUS:
209 Text |           also dark from excess of light; for the souls of the many
210 Text |         which is produced when the light in bright and smooth objects
211 Text |           surface with an external light, and creates a perception


The Statesman
    Part
212 Intro|      brought from afar which throw light on the main subject. And
213 Intro|           heterodox? Viewed in the light of science, would not the
214 Intro|          this royal science by the light of our example. We may compare
215 Intro|      middle, we are most likely to light upon species; at the same
216 Text |           of mankind is brought to light, the time will have come
217 Text |            tale is suited to throw light on the nature of the king.~
218 Text |           heterodox? Viewed in the light of science and true art,
219 Text |            certainly be brought to light; and I think that the illustration


The Symposium
    Part
220 Intro|       whole generation—in whom the light of truth may not lack the
221 Intro|          is absorbed in the sea of light and beauty or retains his
222 Text |         whom love inspires has the light of fame?—he whom Love touches
223 Text |             and with the return of light he offered up a prayer to


Theaetetus
    Part
224 Intro|          bluff, and he ushers into light, not children, but the thoughts
225 Intro|        great or small, or heavy or light, or one, but all is in motion
226 Intro|           my art I have brought to light; and you must not be angry
227 Intro|          him, and sometimes by the light of genius he saw or seemed
228 Intro|            until number introduces light and order into the confusion.
229 Intro|         memory receives a flash of light or life from imagination.
230 Intro|            including gradations of light and shade. From these delicate
231 Intro|        discussion of it will throw light upon some points in the
232 Intro|         there only does a gleam of light come through the darkness
233 Intro|         Physiology may throw a new light on Psychology is a dream
234 Text |             if that would bring to light the truth.~SOCRATES: Come,
235 Text |           great or small, heavy or light, for the great will be small
236 Text |        will be small and the heavy light—there is no single thing
237 Text |          your own opinion into the light of day: when this has been
238 Text |           all things—white, heavy, light: of all such things he is
239 Text |         perceive warm and hard and light and sweet, organs of the
240 Text |          slow, or a heavy which is light, or any other self-contradictory
241 Text |          are, nothing will come to light.~THEAETETUS: Very true;


Timaeus
    Part
242 Intro|     outside of nature; he sees the light, but not the objects which
243 Intro|          which are revealed by the light; and he brings into juxtaposition
244 Intro|            called the sun, to give light over the whole heaven, and
245 Intro|         into which they conveyed a light akin to the light of day,
246 Intro|       conveyed a light akin to the light of day, making it flow through
247 Intro|       through the pupils. When the light of the eye is surrounded
248 Intro|           eye is surrounded by the light of day, then like falls
249 Intro|           go to sleep. The fire or light, when kept in by the eyelids,
250 Intro|          settled in one place, the light and airy ones in another.
251 Intro|            of fire— (1) flame, (2) light that burns not, (3) the
252 Intro|          is compact and repellent. Light and heavy are wrongly explained
253 Intro|      mingling with white becomes a light blue; the union of flame-colour
254 Intro|            the head of man to be a light covering, so that it might
255 Intro|             and at last brought to light. When this desire is unsatisfied
256 Intro|           in his own mind; and the light from within and the light
257 Intro|          light from within and the light from without often crossed
258 Intro|         properties of them came to light when they were compared
259 Intro|            to reappear only in the light of number. Law and morality
260 Intro|           there have been forms of light in which nothing could be
261 Intro|   respiration.~Of the phenomena of light and heavy he speaks afterwards,
262 Intro|           or modern medicine. What light I can throw upon them will
263 Intro|     consists of three elements—the light which is supposed to reside
264 Intro|         reside within the eye, the light of the sun, and the light
265 Intro|          light of the sun, and the light emitted from external objects.
266 Intro|         external objects. When the light of the eye meets the light
267 Intro|         light of the eye meets the light of the sun, and both together
268 Intro|         and both together meet the light issuing from an external
269 Intro|       sight. When the particles of light which proceed from the object
270 Intro|          the variety and motion of light. A sudden flash of fire
271 Intro|            of fire at once elicits light and moisture from the eye,
272 Intro|      bright colour. A more subdued light, on mingling with the moisture
273 Intro|          and their connection with light, is not a bad basis for
274 Intro|            elucidation of it.~More light is thrown upon the Timaeus
275 Intro|         that they throw but little light upon the Timaeus, and that
276 Intro|          degree held out a guiding light to the early navigators.
277 Intro|           it throws an interesting light on the Alexandrian times;
278 Text |         orbits, that it might give light to the whole of heaven,
279 Text |         contrived the eyes to give light, and the principle according
280 Text |            burn, but gave a gentle light, they formed into a substance
281 Text |            a substance akin to the light of every-day life; and the
282 Text |        this pure element. When the light of day surrounds the stream
283 Text |            of vision, wherever the light that falls from within meets
284 Text |       direction, and the loose and light particles in another. In
285 Text |          do not burn but only give light to the eyes; thirdly, the
286 Text |       repellent. The nature of the light and the heavy will be best
287 Text |         the smaller body is called light and said to tend upwards.
288 Text |          and so we call the former light, and the place towards which
289 Text |       positions; for that which is light, heavy, below or above in
290 Text |          relation to that which is light, heavy, below or above in
291 Text |       heats them, and which are so light that they are carried upwards
292 Text |         blue mingles with white, a light blue (Greek) colour is formed,
293 Text |            needed the hair to be a light covering or guard, which
294 Text |          dry become moist, and the light become heavy, and the heavy
295 Text |        become heavy, and the heavy light; all sorts of changes occur.
296 Text |       finally brought out into the light, and thus the generation