The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|         been the actual indictment (compare Xen. Mem.); and the previous
  2 Intro|        about them in other places. (Compare for Anaxagoras, Phaedo,
  3 Intro|         improver of the citizens?’ (Compare Meno.) ‘All men everywhere.’
  4 Intro|             category of sophistry. (Compare Euthyph.)~That the manner
  5 Intro|           them. According to Plato (compare Phaedo; Symp.), as well
  6 Intro|            foundation of religion. (Compare Phaedr.; Euthyph.; Republic.)~
  7 Text |         even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days


Charmides
    Part
  8 PreS |             English in its imagery: compare Laws, (Greek); Rep.; etc.
  9 PreS |          literature are forgeries. (Compare Bentley’s Works (Dyce’s
 10 PreS |          generation of Platonists. (Compare the striking remark of the
 11 Intro|             be rendered Moderation (Compare Cic. Tusc. ‘(Greek), quam


Cratylus
    Part
 12 Intro|          the doctrine of the flux. (Compare Theaet.) Of the real Cratylus
 13 Intro|        sitting from the early dawn (compare Phaedrus and Lysias; Phaedr.)
 14 Intro|           conception of mythology. (Compare Phaedrus.)~When the fervour
 15 Intro|         Homer, oi palaioi Omerikoi (compare Arist. Met.) and the Orphic
 16 Intro|            pneuma ex autou ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai).
 17 Intro|              gaia quasi genneteira (compare the Homeric form gegaasi);
 18 Intro|            and then (II) proceed to compare modern speculations respecting
 19 Intro|         lacuna in human knowledge. (Compare Timaeus.)~Neither is Plato
 20 Intro|       appears to be wholly unaware (compare his derivation of agathos
 21 Intro|          too subtle for an old man (compare Euthyd.), could only have
 22 Intro|            soul of language. We can compare the use of speech with other
 23 Intro|            know more of the other. (Compare W. Humboldt, ‘Ueber die
 24 Intro|            decay, many times over.~(Compare Plato, Laws):—~‘ATHENIAN
 25 Intro|            or pronunciation. We may compare with our own language some
 26 Intro|           make a nobler use of it. (Compare again W. Humboldt, ‘Ueber
 27 Text |             the book of Protagoras; compare Theaet.), I were to attach
 28 Text |          about Batieia and Myrina? (Compare Il. ‘The hill which men
 29 Text |             them purely accidental? Compare the line in which Homer,
 30 Text |           of the body going to him (compare Rep.), my belief is that
 31 Text |            which have a good sense (compare omartein, sunienai, epesthai,


Critias
    Part
 32 Text |         Attica which now exists may compare with any region in the world


Crito
    Part
 33 Text |            as you did in the court (compare Apol.), that you will have
 34 Text |             with hobgoblin terrors (compare Apol.). What will be the
 35 Text |         injure no one at all? (E.g. compare Rep.)~CRITO: Clearly not.~
 36 Text |            may be supposed to love (compare Phaedr.). For you never
 37 Text |           preferred death to exile (compare Apol.), and that you were


Euthydemus
    Part
 38 Intro|       detached from their context. (Compare Theaet.) To such disputes
 39 Intro|            the answers of Cleinias (compare Phaedrus). The name of the
 40 Intro|            finds ‘not unpleasant.’ (Compare Apol.)~Education is the
 41 Text |      perfectly rendered in English. Compare Aristot. Soph. Elenchi (


Euthyphro
    Part
 42 Intro|          porch of the King Archon. (Compare Theaet.) Both have legal
 43 Intro| anthropomorphism of these notions, (compare Symp.; Republic; Politicus.)
 44 Text |       quarrel, when we do quarrel? (Compare Alcib.)~EUTHYPHRO: Yes,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 45 Pre  |          Socratic spirit; they will compare the Ion as being akin both
 46 Text |          making a point of coming? (Compare Symp.) I do really wonder
 47 Text |             feeling of love in him (compare Symp.), I will make an effort,
 48 Text |        helper. When you were young (compare Symp.) and your hopes were
 49 Text |    Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then let us compare our antecedents with those
 50 Text |          the reverse is the truth. (Compare Republic.)~SOCRATES: What!
 51 Text |        Alcibiades, without virtue? (Compare Arist. Pol.)~ALCIBIADES:
 52 Text |           as well as for children? (Compare Arist. Pol.)~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 53 Intro|  Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare Introduction to the Phaedrus.)~
 54 Intro|             double forms of speech (compare Gorg.; Symp.). At first
 55 Intro|           should govern the weaker (compare Republic). Like other men
 56 Intro|            as short as he pleases’ (compare Protag.). Callicles exhibits
 57 Intro|         recoil upon his assailant. (Compare Republic, and the similar
 58 Intro|             altercation they agree (compare Protag.), that Polus shall
 59 Intro|          fact. Socrates has only to compare the lot of the successful
 60 Intro|             of his writings, we may compare him with himself, and with
 61 Intro|           world at the present day (compare Charmides). The defect of
 62 Intro|   definition of rhetoric (Philebus; compare Gorg.), as the art of persuasion,
 63 Intro|         hitherto provided for them (compare Swift’s notion that the
 64 Intro|           than to suffer injustice.~Compare the New Testament—~‘It is
 65 Intro|             to punish the offender (compare Republic). But they are
 66 Intro|           is the true retaliation. (Compare the obscure verse of Proverbs, ‘
 67 Intro|             the basis of morality. (Compare the following: ‘Now, and
 68 Intro|            the same high principle (compare Republic) which he shows
 69 Intro|             called by their names. (Compare Thucyd.)~Who is the true
 70 Intro|            all things for the best (compare Phaedo), but he indirectly
 71 Intro|           philosopher may be happy (compare Republic). It is observable
 72 Intro|           earth-born men (Republic; compare Laws), in which by the adaptation
 73 Intro|         pass from one to the other (compare for examples Psalms xviii.
 74 Intro|      half-inclined to believe them (compare Phaedrus). As in conversation
 75 Text |           is of another sort—let us compare them, and see in what they
 76 Text |            You see, Polus, when you compare the two kinds of refutations,
 77 Text |       rhetoricians and potentates? (Compare Republic.)~POLUS: True.~
 78 Text |            and is called injustice (compare Republic), whereas nature
 79 Text |             of men, nothing worth. (Compare Republic.)~SOCRATES: There
 80 Text |            soma) is our tomb (sema (compare Phaedr.)), and that the
 81 Text |             a similar alternation? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES: Certainly
 82 Text |          there will remain speech? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES: To
 83 Text |         going about without a head (compare Laws); please then to go
 84 Text |             this greatest of evils (compare Republic), in an unjust
 85 Text |           for he cannot live well. (Compare Republic.)~And this is the
 86 Text |           quite convinced by them. (Compare Symp.: 1 Alcib.)~SOCRATES:
 87 Text |          them good—am I not right? (Compare Protag.)~CALLICLES: Yes.~
 88 Text |            of those who have power (compare Republic). And yet in that


Ion
    Part
 89 Intro|          very idiotic themselves.’ (Compare Aristotle, Met.)~Ion the


Laches
    Part
 90 Intro|            at the battle of Delium (compare Symp.).~Socrates, as he
 91 Intro|            the same as all virtues (compare Protagoras). And after all
 92 Text |     delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and


Laws
    Book
 93 7    |           magistrates, and let them compare them with our own, and if
 94 10   |             guardians would any man compare the Gods without absurdity?
 95 10   |         shepherds; and no one would compare them to dogs who have silenced


Lysis
    Part
 96 Intro|           other Dialogues of Plato (compare especially the Protagoras
 97 Intro|          the conceit of knowledge. (Compare Chrm.) The dialogue is what
 98 Intro|      detestable corruptions of it? (Compare Symposium; Laws).~Leaving
 99 Intro|         feeble person into a hero; (compare Symposium).~It is true that
100 Intro|             in different countries (compare Sympos.). While we do not
101 Intro|       friend may profitably study. (Compare Bacon, Essay on Friendship;


Menexenus
    Part
102 Pre  |          Socratic spirit; they will compare the Ion as being akin both
103 Intro|         than the friends of others (compare Thucyd., which seems to


Meno
    Part
104 Intro|           must have always had it. (Compare Phaedo.)~After Socrates
105 Intro|             altogether confident.’ (Compare Phaedo.) It may be observed,
106 Intro|           the association of ideas (compare Phaedo) became a real chain
107 Intro|           is a knowledge of causes (compare Aristotle’s theory of episteme);
108 Intro|          not altogether confident’ (compare Apology; Gorgias). From
109 Intro|            in some sense one (Laws; compare Protagoras).~So various,
110 Intro|            him because God is true (compare Republic). It has been often
111 Intro|            by a special divine act (compare Phaedrus), and he also supposes
112 Intro|           his preconcerted harmony (compare again Phaedrus). To him
113 Text |             said of vice, Socrates (Compare Arist. Pol.).~SOCRATES:
114 Text |            me with a swarm of them (Compare Theaet.), which are in your
115 Text |             which he is to enquire (Compare Aristot. Post. Anal.).~MENO:
116 Text |             the images of Daedalus (Compare Euthyphro); but perhaps


Parmenides
    Part
117 Intro|             in the Megarian School (compare Cratylus, etc.). The criticism
118 Intro|         therefore on the Politicus (compare Theaet., Soph.). But the
119 Intro|         them is not found in Plato (compare Essay on the Platonic Ideas
120 Intro|         seven who are here present (compare Philebus). This is not an
121 Intro|          and to extend them to man (compare Phaedo); but he is reluctant
122 Intro|            the opinions of mankind (compare Soph.). Here is lightly
123 Intro|           in the days of his youth (compare Soph.).~The discussion of
124 Intro|           truth higher than either (compare Soph.). But his ideal theory
125 Intro|           touched the Divine Being (compare Phil.). The same difficulties
126 Intro|        philosophy, though we cannot compare the two in detail. But Plato
127 Intro|           true use of words we must compare them with things; in using
128 Intro|         which is not also relative (compare Republic).~And so, in modern
129 Text |            are not the idea, and to compare them, will not another greatness


Phaedo
    Part
130 Intro|        Socrates has been deferred. (Compare Xen. Mem.) The time has
131 Intro|           and Terpsion from Megara (compare Theaet.), Ctesippus, Antisthenes,
132 Intro|           asked by Evenus the poet (compare Apol.): ‘Why Socrates, who
133 Intro|          but few are the mystics.’ (Compare Matt. xxii.: ‘Many are called
134 Intro|            not quite indissoluble. (Compare Tim.) Yet even the body
135 Intro|             such as bees and ants. (Compare Republic, Meno.) But only
136 Intro|           the company of the gods. (Compare Phaedrus.) This is the reason
137 Intro|             at variance with this. (Compare a parallel difficulty in
138 Intro|            are to be investigated. (Compare Republic; Charm.)~Then he
139 Intro|           other eccentric notions. (Compare Arist. Metaph.) It was as
140 Intro|          the water, or in a glass. (Compare Laws; Republic.) ‘I was
141 Intro|       retaining her own character? (Compare Gorgias.) Or is the opposition
142 Intro|          too inseparable from good (compare Lysis); not always punished
143 Intro|           improvement of the whole (compare Laws.)~9. But some one will
144 Intro|         this alternation of feeling compare the Old Testament,—Psalm
145 Intro|         soul of the good and wise. (Compare Republic.) Such a confusion
146 Intro|        other passages (Gorg., Tim., compare Crito), he wins belief for
147 Intro|      teacher among barbarous races (compare Polit.); or the mysterious
148 Intro|         ordinary interests of life (compare his jeu d’esprit about his
149 Intro|             is rich and prosperous (compare the jest in the Euthydemus),
150 Text |         swallowed up in death? (But compare Republic.)~There is no escape,
151 Text |             anything of that sort. (Compare Meno.)~But if, said Socrates,
152 Text |           sensations, and with this compare them, finding these ideas
153 Text |           in company with the gods (compare Apol.). Is not this true,
154 Text |             and therefore visible.~(Compare Milton, Comus:—~‘But when
155 Text |       without philosophy and mind. (Compare Republic.)~Why are they
156 Text |             eccentricities. I might compare him to a person who began
157 Text |           stones, and fairer still (compare Republic). The reason is,


Phaedrus
    Part
158 Intro|          lovers love their loves.’ (Compare Char.) Here is the end;
159 Intro|        explanation (mantike, manike—compare oionoistike, oionistike, ‘’
160 Intro|           inspiration of the Muses (compare Ion), without which no man
161 Intro|        teeth, are everywhere felt. (Compare Symp.) Father and mother,
162 Intro|           inspiration akin to love (compare Symp.); in these two aspects
163 Intro|          knows nothing of himself. (Compare Symp.) Regarded as a rhetorical
164 Intro|            into a sort of earnest. (Compare Phaedo, Symp.) Or is he
165 Intro|          and oionistike and imeros (compare Cratylus)? It is characteristic
166 Intro|           but the will of the many (compare Republic). Is not legislation
167 Intro|            understood as a whole’? (Compare Charm.) And are not they
168 Intro|          barren of illustrations.’ (Compare Symp., Apol., Euthyphro.)~
169 Intro|         which may also be regarded (compare Soph.) as the process of
170 Intro|             at one.’ We may further compare the words of St. Paul, ‘
171 Intro|            assigning a later date. (Compare Tim., Soph., Laws.) Add
172 Text |         ancient inventors of names (compare Cratylus), who would never
173 Text |             understood as a whole. (Compare Charmides.)~SOCRATES: Yes,


Philebus
    Part
174 Intro|          the existence of the many (compare Parm.). Zeno illustrated
175 Intro|     intermediate links which occur (compare Bacon’s ‘media axiomata’)
176 Intro|            metaphysical enthusiasm (compare Republic). But they are
177 Intro|           as positive and negative (compare ‘Omnis determinatio est
178 Intro|            in relation to the mind (compare Aristot. Nic. Ethics). The
179 Intro|     principle of rest as of motion (compare Charm. Cratyl.). A later
180 Intro|            proceed from hypotheses (compare Republic). (4) The sixth
181 Intro|             money’ on the Sophists (compare Apol.; Crat.; Protag.).
182 Intro|            class. How, then, can we compare them? Are we not liable,
183 Intro|          experience of both kinds. (Compare a similar argument urged
184 Intro|          view of abstract ideas: or compare the simple manner in which
185 Text |           not forget to examine and compare the two. And these goods,
186 Text |   arithmetic.~SOCRATES: And when we compare the art of mensuration which


Protagoras
    Part
187 Intro|            virtuous and just, if we compare them with savages. (5) The
188 Text |          voice, and they following (Compare Rep.). I should mention


The Republic
    Book
189 4    |    attaining perfection. ~You would compare them, I said, to those invalids
190 6    |            is their wisdom. I might compare them to a man who should
191 6    |          the intelligible, and then compare the subdivisions in respect
192 7    |             The teachers of harmony compare the sounds and consonances
193 7    |        existence, with which we may compare the raising of that faculty
194 8    |            them we shall be able to compare the relative happiness or
195 8    |           perhaps timarchy. We will compare with this the like character


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
196 Pre  |             in the spirit of Plato (compare Protag; Ion; Apol.). The
197 Pre  |        phraseology of the Dialogue (compare opos melesei tis...kaka:
198 Pre  |           with the ‘Laws’ of Plato (compare Laws). An incident from
199 Text |           was slain by his beloved (compare Aristotle, Pol.), whose
200 Text |             ills which befall them (compare Republic): ‘their own presumption,’


The Sophist
    Part
201 Intro|         interest of them increases (compare Introd. to the Philebus).
202 Intro|      Sophist to a painter or maker (compare Republic), and the hunt
203 Intro|          the negation of Not-being (compare Parm.).~But he is not thinking
204 Intro|         even older than Xenophanes (compare Protag.). Still older were
205 Intro|    Parmenides by a direct allusion (compare Introductions to Theaetetus
206 Intro|            made a serious business (compare Republic), involves grave
207 Text |             far advanced in years. (Compare Parm.)~STRANGER: I prefer


The Statesman
    Part
208 Intro|        either philosophers or gods (compare Laws).~The Statesman has
209 Intro|          equal interest to science (compare Parmen.). There are other
210 Intro|             a single negative form (compare Soph.).~The Stranger begins
211 Intro|      handicraft arts of the latter (compare Philebus). Under which of
212 Intro|            to read by being made to compare cases in which they do not
213 Intro|        light of our example. We may compare the state to a web, and
214 Intro|          his own larger conception (compare Introduction to Critias).
215 Intro|           in processes of division (compare Phaedr.); he pursues them
216 Intro|             the worker in wool, and compare the art of weaving with
217 Intro|             incapable of education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly
218 Intro|            good against their will (compare Gorgias). The human bonds
219 Intro|           of the many over the few (compare Republic). It has fixed
220 Intro|         Plato cannot help laughing (compare Theaet.) when he thinks
221 Text |            the cut of my ugly face (compare Theaet.), the other is called
222 Text |            diameter of a diameter. (Compare Meno.)~YOUNG SOCRATES: What
223 Text |         enquiry about the Sophist? (Compare Sophist.)~YOUNG SOCRATES:
224 Text |     digression by way of interest. (Compare Republic.)~STRANGER: Then
225 Text |            in question, and then to compare these with the cases in
226 Text |         manner? We take a thing and compare it with another distinct
227 Text |          adapt to the eye of sense (compare Phaedr.), and therefore
228 Text |             we cannot bisect them. (Compare Phaedr.) For we certainly


The Symposium
    Part
229 Intro|             when they were uttered (compare Symp.)—which were wiser
230 Intro|           had reported them to him (compare Xen. Mem.).~The narrative
231 Intro|           to Pausanias and Agathon (compare Protag.), for my words refer
232 Intro|        demon or intermediate power (compare the speech of Eryximachus)
233 Intro|             lying on mats at doors (compare the speech of Pausanias);
234 Intro|           the ordinary human ones? (Compare Bacon’s Essays, 8:—‘Certainly
235 Intro|        problem of Greek philosophy (compare Arist. Nic. Ethics). So
236 Intro|   traditional recollection of them (compare Phaedr., Protag.; and compare
237 Intro|       compare Phaedr., Protag.; and compare Sympos. with Phaedr.). We
238 Intro|             Xenophon’s Memorabilia (compare Symp.).~The speeches have
239 Intro|          into the form of a speech (compare Gorg., Protag.). But his
240 Intro|            profession of ignorance (compare Menex.). Even his knowledge
241 Intro|       introducing into Attic prose (compare Protag.). Of course, he
242 Intro|         consummate of rhetoricians (compare Menexenus).~The last of
243 Intro|          under the figure of human (compare Eph. ‘This is a great mystery,
244 Intro|          the vision of the eternal (compare Symp. (Greek) Republic (
245 Intro|       Socrates this may be doubted: compare his public rebuke of Critias
246 Intro|         than for moral reprobation (compare Plato’s Symp.). It is also
247 Intro|          one interpreted literally (compare Xen. Symp.). Nor does Plato
248 Intro|          depraved love of the body (compare Charm.; Rep.; Laws; Symp.;
249 Intro|          been the stimulus to good (compare Plato, Laws, where he says
250 Intro|            noble or virtuous form.~(Compare Hoeck’s Creta and the admirable
251 Intro|     democratic man of the Republic (compare also Alcibiades 1).~There
252 Intro|       reunited in a single science (compare Rep.). At first immortality
253 Intro|            that she too is eternal (compare Phaedrus). But Plato does
254 Text |           the women who are within (compare Prot.). To-day let us have
255 Text |             lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the
256 Text |           should be poor in spirit (compare Arist. Politics), and that
257 Text |     expression of his ancient need (compare Arist. Pol.). And the reason
258 Text |     villages by the Lacedaemonians (compare Arist. Pol.). And if we
259 Text |          from Diotima of Mantineia (compare 1 Alcibiades), a woman wise
260 Text |            myself as well as I can (compare Gorgias). As you, Agathon,
261 Text |            the melodies of Olympus (compare Arist. Pol.) are derived
262 Text |          the sun, and went his way (compare supra). I will also tell,
263 Text |           things in the same words (compare Gorg.), so that any ignorant


Theaetetus
    Part
264 Intro|          raised in the Theaetetus. (Compare also Theaet. and Soph. for
265 Intro|       authenticity of the dialogue (compare Symposium, Phaedo, Parmenides),
266 Intro|       Socratic theory of education (compare Republic, Sophist), and
267 Intro|          time for such discussions (compare Republic)! There is no reason
268 Intro|           often put into his mouth (compare Introduction to the Gorgias)
269 Intro|        making knowledge impossible (compare Theaet.). They were asserting ‘
270 Intro|   tendencies of mankind in general (compare Introduction to the Sophist).~
271 Intro|            and is caught in a trap (compare the similar trap which is
272 Intro|         common principle is able to compare them with one another, and
273 Intro|    therefore be distinct from them (compare Republic). And as there
274 Intro|      midwifery; I do not pretend to compare with the good and wise of
275 Intro|        consciousness of sensations (compare Phileb.), or the power of
276 Intro|    perpetual companionship of evil (compare Gorgias); or the saying,
277 Intro|            our minds.~Again, we may compare the truths of space with
278 Intro|           all of them equally true (compare Cratylus). Yet from diversity
279 Text |             not appear ridiculous? (Compare Cratylus.)~THEAETETUS: Who
280 Text |            And if that with which I compare myself in size, or which
281 Text |             THEAETETUS: You mean to compare Socrates in health as a
282 Text |            nonsense—I should rather compare you to Scirrhon, who threw
283 Text |            Greek are called eteron: compare Parmen.; Euthyd.)). I mean


Timaeus
    Part
284 Intro|       creation to inferior powers. (Compare, however, Laws for another
285 Intro|         without the help of sense. (Compare the hypotheses and images
286 Intro|             other, and the essence (compare the three principles of
287 Intro|             putting together again (compare however Laws). Yet perhaps
288 Intro|      Republic and in the Phaedrus. (Compare his denial of the ‘blasphemous
289 Intro|          obscures his intelligence (compare the construction of solids
290 Intro|           fountain of fire which we compare to the network of a creel.’
291 Intro|        being tested by experiment. (Compare the saying of Anaxagoras—
292 Text |             have described. I might compare myself to a person who,
293 Text |        registers themselves. If you compare these very laws with ours
294 Text |     inaccurate modes of expression (compare Parmen.). But perhaps this
295 Text |          fountain of fire, which we compare to the network of a creel,