The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|           been all his life long, ‘a king of men.’ He would rather
  2 Text |              man, but even the great king will not find many such


Charmides
    Part
  3 Text |             is near the Porch of the King Archon.~Yesterday evening
  4 Text |           adjoining the porch of the King Archon, and there I found
  5 Text |           physicians of the Thracian king Zamolxis, who are said to
  6 Text |              Zamolxis, he added, our king, who is also a god, says
  7 Text |            at the court of the great king, or on the continent of


Cratylus
    Part
  8 Intro|            boy was called Astyanax (‘king of the city’), because his
  9 Intro|            the same,—the one means a king, and the other is ‘a holder
 10 Intro|              a foal, so the son of a king may be called a king. But
 11 Intro|            of a king may be called a king. But if the horse had produced
 12 Intro|            the same may be said of a king and the son of a king, who
 13 Intro|              a king and the son of a king, who like other animals
 14 Intro|           For he, being the lord and king of all, is the author of
 15 Intro| instinctively imitated by them,—the ‘king of men’ who was their priest,
 16 Text |             men called him Astyanax (king of the city); but if the
 17 Text |       calling the son of the saviour king of the city which his father
 18 Text |             both are Hellenic; and a king (anax) and a holder (ektor)
 19 Text |            are both descriptive of a king; for a man is clearly the
 20 Text |        holder of that of which he is king; he rules, and owns, and
 21 Text |          same principle the son of a king is to be called a king.
 22 Text |             a king is to be called a king. And whether the syllables
 23 Text |            not the same be said of a king? a king will often be the
 24 Text |            same be said of a king? a king will often be the son of
 25 Text |           will often be the son of a king, the good son or the noble
 26 Text |         other names which just mean ‘king.’ Again, there are several
 27 Text |            to all, than the lord and king of all. Wherefore we are


Critias
    Part
 28 Intro|           was Atlas, and him he made king of the centre island, while
 29 Intro|            common about war, and the king was not to have the power
 30 Text |       largest and best, and made him king over the rest; the others
 31 Text |            eldest, who was the first king, he named Atlas, and after
 32 Text |        successive generations, every king surpassing the one who went
 33 Text |        descendants of Atlas. And the king was not to have the power


Euthydemus
    Part
 34 Text |              treasure than the great king is in the possession of


Euthyphro
    Part
 35 Intro|          meeting in the porch of the King Archon. (Compare Theaet.)
 36 Text |              SCENE: The Porch of the King Archon.~EUTHYPHRO: Why have
 37 Text |            doing in the Porch of the King Archon? Surely you cannot
 38 Text |       concerned in a suit before the King, like myself?~SOCRATES:


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 39 Intro|             kings and with the great king of Persia; and he can only
 40 Text |    Lacedaemonians and with the great king?~ALCIBIADES: True enough.~
 41 Text |            Lacedaemonian and Persian king were your true rivals?~ALCIBIADES:
 42 Text |        Spartan generals or the great king are really different from
 43 Text |        Persia can be any one but the king. Such is the awe which invests
 44 Text |              all the subjects of the king feast; and the day of his
 45 Text |       accustomed to be a freeman and king indeed,—lord of himself
 46 Text |            person who went up to the king (at Susa), that he passed
 47 Text |            and then go and fight the king, he refuses, and says that


Gorgias
    Part
 48 Intro|             pronounce even the great king to be happy, unless he knows
 49 Intro|        Alcetas, brother of Perdiccas king of Macedon—and he, by every
 50 Intro|               Pindar says, ‘Law, the king of all, does violence with
 51 Intro|          prevent him. But if he is a king, and has power, how base
 52 Intro|               perhaps even the great king himself, appears before
 53 Intro|             interval which separates king from tyrant, should not
 54 Text |          even know whether the great king was a happy man?~SOCRATES:
 55 Text |           his poem, that~‘Law is the king of all, of mortals as well
 56 Text |              originally the son of a king, or had a nature capable
 57 Text |             on the soul of the great king, or of some other king or
 58 Text |         great king, or of some other king or potentate, who has no


Laws
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 59 3    |            Athenian. Temenus was the king of Argos, Cresphontes of
 60 3    |             as we now fear the Great King. And the second capture
 61 3    |        wisdom to the public; for the king was not jealous, but allowed
 62 3    |          Darius was not the son of a king, and had not received a
 63 3    |            never been a really great king among the Persians, although
 64 3    |    innumerable threats came from the king. Then, as time went on,
 65 10   |             I will explain:—When the king saw that our actions had


Lysis
    Part
 66 Text |             said: There is the great king, and he has an eldest son,


Menexenus
    Part
 67 Text |             was subject to the third king of Persia. The first king,
 68 Text |            king of Persia. The first king, Cyrus, by his valour freed
 69 Text |           Egypt and Libya; the third king was Darius, who extended
 70 Text |       Eretrians and Athenians to the king, if he wished to keep his
 71 Text |            might be able to tell the king that no one had escaped
 72 Text |              a report that the great king was going to make a new
 73 Text |           because they compelled the king in fear for himself to look
 74 Text |           their bitterest enemy, the king of Persia, whom they, together
 75 Text |          miracle of all, the Persian king himself was driven to such
 76 Text |    themselves. Whereas, to the great king she refused to give the
 77 Text |              of the Parians. Now the king fearing this city and wanting
 78 Text |            who delivered the Persian king, and drove the Lacedaemonians


Meno
    Part
 79 Intro|       hereditary friend of the great king. Like Alcibiades he is inspired
 80 Intro|              the figure of mind, the king of all, who is also the
 81 Text |       hereditary friend of the great king, virtue is the power of


Phaedrus
    Part
 82 Intro|            the second degree, into a king or warrior; the third, into
 83 Intro|            to the dialectician, that king of men. They are effected
 84 Intro|              the mind or will of the king is preferred to the written
 85 Text |              shall be some righteous king or warrior chief; the soul
 86 Text |               SOCRATES: And when the king or orator has the power,
 87 Text |          days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of


Philebus
    Part
 88 Intro|             mind of Zeus, who is the king of all, as there are other
 89 Intro|            is the soul and mind of a King, because there is in him
 90 Intro|              agreed that mind is the king of heaven and earth’ with
 91 Text |           one voice that mind is the king of heaven and earth—in reality
 92 Text |            is the soul and mind of a king, because there is in him


The Republic
    Book
 93 2    |       shepherd in the service of the King of Lydia; there was a great
 94 2    |              about the flocks to the King; into their assembly he
 95 2    |           help conspired against the King and slew him and took the
 96 2    |           the fame of some blameless king who, like a god, Maintains
 97 8    |          suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara
 98 8    |        conceits shut the gate of the King's fastness; and they will
 99 9    |       lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him on, as a tyrant
100 9    |              city, which was under a king, and the city which is under
101 9    |        government, and the rule of a king the happiest. ~And in estimating
102 9    |            is the most royal man and king over himself; and that the
103 9    |            natural pleasure, and the king at the least? ~Certainly. ~
104 9    |           most unpleasantly, and the king most pleasantly? ~Inevitably. ~
105 9    |            tyrant is parted from the king. ~Yes; the arithmetician
106 9    |            the interval by which the king is parted from the tyrant
107 10   |              thrice removed from the king and from the truth? ~That


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
108 Text |             in behalf of them all:—~‘King Zeus, grant us good whether
109 Text |          people of the spear-skilled king.’~So that it was in vain


The Seventh Letter
    Part
110 Text |           what the good lawgiver and king ought to be; for he drew


The Sophist
    Part
111 Intro|            and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone
112 Intro|           wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, “That that is
113 Text |               though he be the Great King himself, is in an awful


The Statesman
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114 Intro|           his theme. The idea of the king or statesman and the illustration
115 Intro|      juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side with the bird-catcher;
116 Intro|          side with the bird-catcher; king or vermin-destroyer are
117 Intro|  anticipation that the rivals of the king will be found in the class
118 Intro|              the characteristic of a king or royal person. And the
119 Intro|        discover the true herdsman or king of men. But before we can
120 Intro|        pattern, we will separate the king from his subordinates or
121 Intro|              return once more to the king or statesman, and proceed
122 Intro|          despair of finding the true king. (6) The sciences which
123 Intro|      implanted by education, and the king or statesman completes the
124 Intro|           not first ask, whether the king, statesman, master, householder,
125 Intro|       physician, so the adviser of a king has royal science and is
126 Intro|           has royal science and is a king. And the master of a large
127 Intro|              that the science of the king, statesman, and householder
128 Intro|         rather than to action. For a king rules with his mind, and
129 Intro|               And the science of the king is of the latter nature;
130 Intro|            lifeless objects. And the king is not like the master-builder,
131 Intro|            in the ponds of the Great King, and of the nurseries of
132 Intro|          need not say with which the king is concerned. And land-herds
133 Intro|            and the hornless, and the king is concerned with the hornless;
134 Intro|            mixing the breed; and the king or statesman has the care
135 Intro|            of the bird-taker and the king, who may be seen scampering
136 Intro|         guilty in our account of the king. The first and grand error
137 Intro|              was in choosing for our king a god, who belongs to the
138 Intro|            And yet the figure of the king is still defective. We have
139 Intro|           and in separating the true king from his rivals.~I will
140 Intro|             now let us return to our king or statesman, and transfer
141 Intro|             the like, but not to the king or statesman. Further, there
142 Intro|          that the real rivals of the king will be discovered. I am
143 Intro|      magistrate, as at Athens to the King Archon. At last, then, we
144 Intro|          distinguished from the true king or statesman. And here I
145 Intro|       certainly is the business of a king; and yet the best thing
146 Intro|            should rule, but that the king should rule, for the varieties
147 Intro|            has royal science he is a king, whether he be so in fact
148 Intro|              men despair of the true king ever appearing among them;
149 Intro|              made, the nature of the king will be unalloyed. Now there
150 Intro|          rest, is the science of the king or statesman.~Once more
151 Intro|            picture, Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than
152 Intro|        Sophist. In the Statesman the king or statesman is discovered
153 Intro|            the genus under which the king falls, we proceed to distinguish
154 Intro|        attempt. As a parallel to the king we select the worker in
155 Intro|             so in the Statesman, the king or statesman is the dialectician,
156 Intro|          private station, is still a king. Whether he has the power
157 Intro|             Plato’s later style.~The king is the personification of
158 Intro|   dialectician is also the only true king or statesman. In the execution
159 Intro|              fancifully said to be a king; but neither they nor Plato
160 Intro|             a physician, and he is a king who has the knowledge of
161 Intro|           who has the knowledge of a king. But how the king, one or
162 Intro|     knowledge of a king. But how the king, one or more, is to obtain
163 Intro|             no respecter of persons: king and vermin-taker are all
164 Intro|            have been a time when the king was a god, but he now is
165 Intro|                when he thinks of the king running after his subjects,
166 Intro|          converted into a beneficent king. The sophist too is no longer,
167 Intro|        Not-being, but concerning the king and statesman. We perceive,
168 Text |      STRANGER: And are ‘statesman,’ ‘king,’ ‘master,’ or ‘householder,’
169 Text |         surely the science of a true king is royal science?~YOUNG
170 Text |            too, is evident, that the king cannot do much with his
171 Text |          Then, shall we say that the king has a greater affinity to
172 Text |           the kingly science and the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.~
173 Text |         divisions shall we place the king?— Is he a judge and a kind
174 Text |          dealer, which parts off the king from the herald.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
175 Text |           over lifeless objects;—the king has a nobler function, which
176 Text |            in the ponds of the Great King; or you may have seen similar
177 Text |            be assumed.~STRANGER: The king is clearly the shepherd
178 Text |     ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with
179 Text |              the pig-driver with the king. According to this explanation
180 Text |          road to the definition of a king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: By all
181 Text |              which distinguishes the king from all other shepherds.~
182 Text |           can our argument about the king be true and unimpeachable?
183 Text |           light on the nature of the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good;
184 Text |         illustrate the nature of the king. For when the world turned
185 Text |            in the delineation of the king and the statesman in our
186 Text |           when we were asked about a king and statesman of the present
187 Text |           even higher than that of a king; whereas the statesmen who
188 Text |              in such an art than any king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
189 Text |            simplicity led us to rank king and tyrant together, whereas
190 Text |            of management is the true king and statesman?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
191 Text |           judgment the figure of the king is not yet perfected; like
192 Text |           because we imagined that a king required grand illustrations,
193 Text |             STRANGER: The art of the king has been separated from
194 Text |            who are the rivals of the king in the formation of the
195 Text |           enterprises; in Egypt, the king himself is not allowed to
196 Text |              chosen by lot to be the King Archon.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
197 Text |              separated from the true king or Statesman, if we are
198 Text |          separate them from the wise king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That, as
199 Text |             manner the business of a king, and yet the best thing
200 Text |           discover some image of the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What sort
201 Text |             who knows, we call him a king; and if he rules according
202 Text |             same—he will be called a king; and thus the five names
203 Text |         origin of the tyrant and the king, of oligarchies, and aristocracies,
204 Text |              more nearly akin to the king, and more difficult to discern;
205 Text |           which he receives from the king and legislator,—showing
206 Text |             who are able to act; the king ought to know what is and
207 Text |            picture, Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than


The Symposium
    Part
208 Intro| impossibility in supposing that ‘one king, or son of a king, may be
209 Intro|          that ‘one king, or son of a king, may be a philosopher,’


Theaetetus
    Part
210 Intro|          Meletus at the porch of the king Archon; but with the same
211 Intro|          poets, with Epicharmus, the king of Comedy, and Homer, the
212 Intro|            of Comedy, and Homer, the king of Tragedy, at their head,
213 Intro|             ridiculous appearance. A king or tyrant appears to him
214 Intro|          Meletus at the porch of the King Archon; but to-morrow I
215 Text |        without missing, shall be our king, and shall have the right
216 Text |            When he hears a tyrant or king eulogized, he fancies that
217 Text |             about the happiness of a king or of a rich man to the
218 Text |            to go to the porch of the King Archon, where I am to meet


Timaeus
    Part
219 Intro|           city was the birthplace of King Amasis, and is under the
220 Intro|            fact. Like the romance of King Arthur, which has had so
221 Text |           and is the city from which King Amasis came. The citizens