The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            in the greatest and most public scene of his life, and in
  2 Intro|             is the nameless accuser—public opinion. All the world from
  3 Intro|      formula, which is a summary of public opinion, assumes the same
  4 Intro|            taken him away both from public and private affairs. Young
  5 Intro|          has he never taken part in public affairs? Because the familiar
  6 Intro|      hindered him; if he had been a public man, and had fought for
  7 Intro|         have done no good. Twice in public matters he has risked his
  8 Intro|           Thirty.~But, though not a public man, he has passed his days
  9 Intro|            the eyes of the Athenian public.~
 10 Text |          time to give either to any public matter of interest or to
 11 Text |            every other good of man, public as well as private. This
 12 Text |          venture to come forward in public and advise the state. I
 13 Text |           private station and not a public one.~I can give you convincing
 14 Text |         these years, if I had led a public life, supposing that like
 15 Text |             same in all my actions, public as well as private, and
 16 Text |        speak. But, having regard to public opinion, I feel that such
 17 Text |       setting aside the question of public opinion, there seems to


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Intro|      Dionysodorus and Euthydemus to public opinion; for most persons
 19 Text |            you not to have any more public entertainments; there is
 20 Text |            impropriety of holding a public discussion with such men,


Euthyphro
    Part
 21 Text |             he will be a very great public benefactor.~EUTHYPHRO: I


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 22 Intro|           man, is about to enter on public life, having an inordinate
 23 Text | guardianship of the Ephori, who are public officers and watch over
 24 Text |             he not fail both in his public and private capacity?~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 25 Intro|             morality, or regard for public opinion, enables Socrates
 26 Intro|           away by the great tide of public opinion. Socrates approaches
 27 Intro|        present day who performs his public duties at all.’ The two
 28 Intro|            Socrates is and is not a public man. Not in the ordinary
 29 Intro|           rejoins, that he is not a public man, and (referring to his
 30 Intro|           But who would undertake a public building, if he had never
 31 Intro|         Callicles is about to enter public life, should we not examine
 32 Intro|         right, without reference to public opinion or to consequences.
 33 Intro|          the standard of utility or public opinion, but merely to point
 34 Intro|           or any other influence of public opinion, have been willing
 35 Intro|             irony and antagonism to public opinion, the Gorgias most
 36 Intro|        disguises which rhetoric and public opinion have hitherto provided
 37 Intro|     individual cannot easily change public opinion; but he can be true
 38 Intro|            supported and watched by public opinion. And on some fitting
 39 Intro|         better (as well as a worse) public opinion of which he seeks
 40 Intro|            world; he must enlighten public opinion; he must accustom
 41 Intro|            space in the eyes of the public. They were private persons;
 42 Intro|           those who are more in the public eye. They have the promise
 43 Text |        their other vessels, whether public or private— but can you
 44 Text |       SOCRATES: O Polus, I am not a public man, and only last year,
 45 Text |             man, whether private or public, and utterly ignorant of
 46 Text |           rhetoric, and engaging in public affairs, according to the
 47 Text |            pleasure, forgetting the public good in the thought of their
 48 Text |             have a real care of the public in what they say, while
 49 Text |         intending to set about some public business, and were advising
 50 Text |   proceeding to the construction of public works. But if we had no
 51 Text |         ridiculous in us to attempt public works, or to advise one
 52 Text |           already beginning to be a public character, and are admonishing
 53 Text |          before you came forward in public. Why will you not answer?~
 54 Text |          that such is the duty of a public man? Nay, we have surely
 55 Text |         them, whether in private or public, it is useless for me to
 56 Text |            kings and potentates and public men, for they are the authors
 57 Text |        above all things, as well in public as in private life; and


Laches
    Part
 58 Text |            one who is occupied with public affairs. As he says, such


Laws
    Book
 59 1    |    institutions, private as well as public, were arranged by him with
 60 2    |             will be of the greatest public advantage, and then use
 61 2    |            years, after dinner at a public mess, he may invite not
 62 2    |         that of the choruses or the public theatres, I should like
 63 3    |          imparted his wisdom to the public; for the king was not jealous,
 64 3    |         hands. But the directors of public instruction insisted that
 65 4    |        hearken, both in private and public life, and regulate our cities
 66 6    |              take their part in the public elections of the state;
 67 6    |           him lose his share of the public possessions, and when there
 68 6    |  possessions, and when there is any public distribution, let him have
 69 6    |      private advantage, but for the public service only; and in general
 70 6    |         leisure to take care of the public interest. Let every man
 71 6    |          dies while he is holding a public office, and more than thirty
 72 6    |             decision; the other for public causes, in which some citizen
 73 6    |      citizen is of opinion that the public has been wronged by an individual,
 74 6    |         more he ought to pay to the public treasury, and to the party
 75 6    |             class, shall owe to the public treasury a similar sum,
 76 6    |         person to encroach upon any public property either by buildings
 77 6    |            he can give laws for the public conduct of states, while
 78 6    |             law in their common and public life, is making a great
 79 6    |           no similar institution of public tables in the light of day,
 80 6    |             compel women to show in public how much they eat and drink?
 81 7    |             the help of some of the public slaves; but if any citizen
 82 7    |        dancing shall offend against public and consecrated models,
 83 7    |       cities. A magistrate offers a public sacrifice, and there come
 84 7    |            of them do much of their public and of their household business,
 85 7    |            things there ought to be public teachers, receiving pay
 86 8    |       fitting times, and appointing public festivals. It is not difficult
 87 8    |             bring his suit into the public courts and have the evil–
 88 8    |         particular case, before the public courts. There are innumerable
 89 8    |             secure and preserve the public order of the state, has
 90 8    |           be involved, then let the public courts decide according
 91 9    |          let him undergo a long and public imprisonment and be dishonoured,
 92 9    |         guardians of the law in the public prison for two years, and
 93 9    |        athletic contest, and at the public games, involuntarily kills
 94 9    |             by contrivance, let the public executioner take him in
 95 9    |    happening to a competitor in the public contests, the kinsmen of
 96 9    |           not with private but with public good (for public good binds
 97 9    |           but with public good (for public good binds together states,
 98 9    |            them); and that both the public and private good as well
 99 9    |            persist in regarding the public good as primary in the state,
100 9    |            whole family, but is the public and private property of
101 10   |          great when in violation of public and holy rites, or of the
102 10   |           men in private as well as public life, which, though not
103 10   |           law from the hands of the public slaves; and when he is dead
104 10   |          their private rites to the public temples, and if they do
105 11   |             it be registered in the public registers, to which of the
106 11   |           craftsmen undertake other public works;—if they execute their
107 11   |           to any other citizen, the public shall pay a price on his
108 11   |         word at a temple, or at the public sacrifices, or at games,
109 11   |         court of justice, or in any public assembly. And let the magistrate
110 12   |           anything belonging to the public, whether that which he steals
111 12   |            or a slave of a theft of public property, let the court
112 12   |          suffer a penalty which the public examiner shall exact of
113 12   |          have the first seat at all public assemblies, and at all Hellenic
114 12   |          sacred missions, and other public and holy ceremonies in which
115 12   |          quite unconcernedly at the public meals and in other companies
116 12   |         other shows, and as regards public services, whether the celebration
117 12   |          capacity, but only in some public one, as a herald, or on
118 12   |             places and harbours and public buildings, near the city
119 12   |             is he who comes on some public business from another land,
120 12   |          and is to be received with public honours. He is to be received
121 12   |             two valuations; and the public officers may use annuary
122 12   |             manner of stone, to the public temples; of woven work let
123 12   |      regulated in this way, and the public and state courts, and those
124 12   |             other business, whether public or private—was not something


Lysis
    Part
125 Intro|            common work or have some public interest in common. It exists
126 Intro|         deal by the manner in which public opinion regards them; they


Menexenus
    Part
127 Text |          know that there is to be a public funeral?~SOCRATES: Yes,
128 Text |          freedom, did both in their public and private capacity many


Phaedo
    Part
129 Intro|          reticence of the Greeks on public occasions and in some part
130 Text |           allowed to be polluted by public executions; and when the


Phaedrus
    Part
131 Intro|       direct their steps out of the public way along the stream of
132 Intro|         rhetoric has great power in public assemblies. This power,
133 Intro|           fulfilment of military or public duties, they are not helpers
134 Intro|           is the true atmosphere of public speaking, in oratory. The
135 Text |       refreshing, and he would be a public benefactor. For my part,
136 Text |       worthy of your friendship. If public opinion be your dread, and
137 Text |         benefits on Hellas, both in public and private life, but when
138 Text |    practised not only in courts and public assemblies, but in private
139 Text |        lawsuits, and to speaking in public assemblies—not extended
140 Text |     PHAEDRUS: A very great power in public meetings.~SOCRATES: It has.


Philebus
    Part
141 Intro|            weakened by the force of public opinion. They may be corrected
142 Intro|             with the opinion of the public, are hardly perceived by
143 Intro|            sanctioned by custom and public opinion.~Lastly, if we turn
144 Intro|           what course of policy the public interest may be promoted,
145 Intro|         Thrasymachus adapted to the public opinion of modern times.~


Protagoras
    Part
146 Intro|     prudence in affairs private and public; in short, the science or
147 Intro|       Sophists representing average public opinion and Socrates seeking
148 Text |          affairs private as well as public; he will learn to order
149 Text |      cultivated both in private and public; and, notwithstanding, they
150 Text |            about virtue private and public, why, Socrates, do you still
151 Text |            art, both in private and public, and reproving the bad player
152 Text |           are the worse off both in public and private life:—Let us


The Republic
    Book
153 1    |          getting nothing out of the public, because he is just; moreover
154 1    |             as profane, private and public; for which acts of wrong,
155 1    |       helping themselves out of the public revenues to get the name
156 2    |           every contest, whether in public or private, he gets the
157 2    |           and to honor them both in public and private when they are
158 2    |          States, private as well as public. ~Undoubtedly. ~And our
159 3    |           be allowed to lie for the public good. But nobody else should
160 4    |          rights, private as well as public. ~Is that true? I said. ~
161 5    |          ages who takes part in the public hymeneals shall be said
162 5    |         complete maintenance at the public cost. For the victory which
163 5    |             be happiness private or public is indeed a hard thing. ~
164 6    |            speaking of? Are not the public who say these things the
165 6    |             good and evil which the public in general have-he will
166 6    |          and educators, who are the public, apply when their words
167 6    |           that which is supplied by public opinion-I speak, my friend,
168 6    |        private intrigues as well as public prosecutions? ~There can
169 7    |            act rationally either in public or private life must have
170 7    |         actions, private as well as public; nor the latter, because
171 7    |            to the administration of public affairs, poor and hungering
172 7    |         politics and ruling for the public good, not as though they
173 7    |             the city will give them public memorials and sacrifices
174 8    |          honors both in private and public. Now, in such a State, can
175 8    |             condemned to death by a public accusation, they conspire
176 8    |           who is making promises in public and also in private! liberating
177 9    |            and again in the hour of public danger-he shall tell us
178 9    |       further misfortune of being a public tyrant. ~From what has been
179 9    |      constrained by fortune to be a public tyrant? He has to be master
180 9    |           those, whether private or public, which are likely to disorder
181 10   |       better or worse in private or public life, tell us what State
182 10   |              if Homer never did any public service, was he privately
183 10   |           imitated, especially at a public festival when a promiscuous
184 10   |        humble birth, of private and public station, of strength and


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
185 Text |           requests which we make in public and private, and favour
186 Text |           offer the prayer alike in public and private, that the Gods


The Seventh Letter
    Part
187 Text |        following occurrences in the public affairs of my own city.
188 Text |        rulers with full powers over public affairs as a whole. Some
189 Text |          the desire to take part in public and political affairs. Well,
190 Text |    incidents and the men engaged in public affairs, the laws too and
191 Text |           it seemed to me to handle public affairs aright. For it was
192 Text |           not an easy matter, since public affairs at Athens were not
193 Text |            in the general course of public life, I postponed action
194 Text |      enabled to see what justice in public and private life really


The Sophist
    Part
195 Intro|            the greater influence of public opinion. But there is no
196 Intro|     persuasion is either private or public. Of the private practitioners
197 Text |           is private, and the other public.~THEAETETUS: Yes; each of
198 Text |         long speeches, and there is public discussion about the just
199 Text |            harangues a multitude in public in a long speech, and the


The Statesman
    Part
200 Intro|             two steps in advance of public opinion. In all stages of
201 Text |          skill to advise one of the public physicians, must not he
202 Text |          whether with a view to the public good they purge the State
203 Text |             prosper either in their public or private life.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
    Part
204 Intro|           of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the
205 Intro|             married and endowed the public.’)~I will now initiate you,
206 Intro|             be doubted: compare his public rebuke of Critias for his


Theaetetus
    Part
207 Intro|        occasion in private life and public, as I was saying, when he
208 Text |        occasion, private as well as public, as I said at first, when


Timaeus
    Part
209 Text |            in private as well as in public, and no sort of instruction
210 Text |          disputing in private or in public, and strifes and controversies