The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |            may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreS |             Socrates is the central figure, and there are lesser performers


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|        which is expressed under the figure of sleep, to eudon; the
  4 Intro|         words, until the picture or figure—that is, language—is completed.
  5 Intro|         common sense. An analogy, a figure of speech, an intelligible
  6 Intro|             verbs,’ is a misleading figure of speech. Although all
  7 Intro|            in truth be said to be a figure of speech. One person may
  8 Intro|             majority. The favourite figure, in this, as in some other
  9 Intro|           language either under the figure of a limitless plain divided
 10 Intro|        round form of the egg by the figure of the mouth: or bronte (
 11 Intro|             a new word or phrase or figure of speech.~There are associations
 12 Text |     thallein (to flourish) seems to figure the growth of youth, which
 13 Text |          All objects have sound and figure, and many have colour?~HERMOGENES:
 14 Text |           and as the painter made a figure, even so shall we make speech
 15 Text |          gives a perfect picture or figure; and he who takes away or
 16 Text |             also gives a picture or figure, but not a good one.~CRATYLUS:


Critias
    Part
 17 Text |         custom of the time set up a figure and image of the goddess


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Text |           indeed. And we cut a poor figure; we were like children after


Euthyphro
    Part
 19 Intro|         virtues of Republic IV. The figure of Daedalus has occurred
 20 Text |           number which represents a figure having two equal sides.


Gorgias
    Part
 21 Intro| recapitulation of the argument in a figure.~(2) Socrates makes the
 22 Intro|     fanciful, but nevertheless is a figure of a truth which I want
 23 Intro|              Yes, Socrates, and the figure expresses what I mean. For
 24 Intro|          behalf. Adopting a similar figure of speech, Socrates would
 25 Intro|     themselves to submit. Under the figure there lurks a real thought,
 26 Intro|    apprentices,—a somewhat laboured figure of speech intended to illustrate
 27 Intro|          complete, the mathematical figure of the number of the state (
 28 Intro|             Phaedrus it is really a figure of speech in which the ‘
 29 Intro|         which he has suggested in a figure. The answer depends on another
 30 Intro|          the other hand, any single figure of speech if too often repeated,
 31 Intro|          too, the striking image or figure of speech is not forgotten,
 32 Text |      temperate and intemperate in a figure:— There are two men, both


Laches
    Part
 33 Text |           laughed at his ridiculous figure; and when some one threw


Laws
    Book
 34 2    |             in pursuit of beauty of figure, and melody, and song, and
 35 2    |     Athenian. And what is beauty of figure, or beautiful melody? When
 36 2    |            may speak of a melody or figure having good rhythm or good
 37 2    |       metaphorically of a melody or figure having a “good colour,”
 38 2    |       separating the rhythm and the figure of the dance from the melody,
 39 6    |           one had a mind to paint a figure in the most beautiful manner,
 40 11   |            prayers. And, truly, the figure of an ancestor is a wonderful
 41 12   |             have been compared in a figure to things woven by fire,


Menexenus
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 42 Text |            Rhamnusian, might make a figure if he were to praise the


Meno
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 43 Intro|            like; just as round is a figure, and black and white are
 44 Intro|           Meno take the examples of figure and colour, and try to define
 45 Intro|            Socrates himself defines figure as ‘the accompaniment of
 46 Intro|             is allowed to intrude: ‘Figure is the limit of form.’ Meno
 47 Intro|           dialectical definition of figure is far better.~Now that
 48 Intro|       inconsistent. The magnificent figure under which the nature of
 49 Intro|           deity expressed under the figure of mind, the king of all,
 50 Text |         Suppose that I carry on the figure of the swarm, and ask of
 51 Text |           round, for example, is ‘a figure’ and not simply ‘figure,’
 52 Text |             figure’ and not simply ‘figure,’ and I should adopt this
 53 Text |         Meno, he would say, what is figure? And if you answered ‘roundness,’
 54 Text |        would say that roundness is ‘figure’ or ‘a figure;’ and you
 55 Text |         roundness is ‘figure’ or ‘a figure;’ and you would answer ‘
 56 Text |             and you would answer ‘a figure.’~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 57 Text |       nature which you designate as figure—which contains straight
 58 Text |          only assert that the round figure is not more a figure than
 59 Text |          round figure is not more a figure than the straight, or the
 60 Text |         then do we give the name of figure? Try and answer. Suppose
 61 Text |          this question either about figure or colour, you were to reply,
 62 Text |           in multis’ which you call figure, and which includes not
 63 Text |             and explain to you what figure is. What do you say to this
 64 Text |             you say to this answer?—Figure is the only thing which
 65 Text |          Because, according to you, figure is that which always follows
 66 Text |       colour is, any more than what figure is—what sort of answer would
 67 Text |         understand my definition of figure. I define figure to be that
 68 Text |      definition of figure. I define figure to be that in which the
 69 Text |         than the other answer about figure.~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
 70 Text |     remember how, in the example of figure, we rejected any answer
 71 Text |             boy, do you know that a figure like this is a square?~BOY:
 72 Text |          And you know that a square figure has these four lines equal?~
 73 Text |              And if one side of the figure be of two feet, and the
 74 Text |     necessary in order to produce a figure of eight square feet; does
 75 Text |     speaking of an oblong, but of a figure equal every way, and twice
 76 Text |              Let us describe such a figure: Would you not say that
 77 Text |            not say that this is the figure of eight feet?~BOY: Yes.~
 78 Text |         these four divisions in the figure, each of which is equal
 79 Text |            of which is equal to the figure of four feet?~BOY: True.~
 80 Text |             one: and that makes the figure of which you speak?~BOY:
 81 Text |           Eight.~SOCRATES: Then the figure of eight is not made out
 82 Text |          now, what is the side of a figure of eight feet: but then
 83 Text |           what line do you get this figure?~BOY: From this.~SOCRATES:
 84 Text |             corner to corner of the figure of four feet?~BOY: Yes.~
 85 Text |        forming a conclusion: If the figure be such that when you have


Parmenides
    Part
 86 Intro|           is, that ‘partaking’ is a figure of speech, really corresponding
 87 Intro|           is therefore of a certain figure, round or straight, or a
 88 Intro|            a manner that number and figure may be made a calculus of
 89 Intro|         other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from
 90 Text |             the one will partake of figure, either rectilinear or round,


Phaedo
    Part
 91 Intro|           Simmias he expresses in a figure. He is willing to admit
 92 Intro|        after all has been said, the figure, the analogy, the argument,
 93 Intro|            to see, darkly, and in a figure, that the soul is immortal.~
 94 Text |            when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes
 95 Text |        Simmias, I will express in a figure, is of any weight. The analogy
 96 Text |           be expressed in a similar figure; and any one may very fairly


Phaedrus
    Part
 97 Intro|        introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus
 98 Intro|          form may be described in a figure as a composite nature made
 99 Intro|       Together all three, who are a figure of the soul, approach the
100 Intro|         each other in God; how in a figure they grew wings like doves,
101 Intro|            as well as men under the figure of two winged steeds and
102 Intro|       steeds really correspond in a figure more nearly to the appetitive
103 Intro|          hand, only carries out the figure of the chariot. Is he serious,
104 Intro|        allowed to break through the figure, and the details are not
105 Intro|            of Plato, describes in a figure things which are beyond
106 Intro|         rather using a mythological figure, here as elsewhere, to draw
107 Intro|             is only an allegory, or figure of speech. For this reason,
108 Text |             speak briefly, and in a figure. And let the figure be composite—
109 Text |            in a figure. And let the figure be composite—a pair of winged
110 Text |          the affection of love in a figure, into which we introduced


Philebus
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111 Intro|         conveys the same truth in a figure, when he speaks of carving
112 Intro|          construction of number and figure, which he had within himself,
113 Intro|            another, the sciences of figure and number are probably
114 Intro|        which is described under the figure of the scribe and the painter.
115 Intro|       pleasure is like pleasure, as figure is like figure and colour
116 Intro|         pleasure, as figure is like figure and colour like colour;
117 Intro|             mistaken. You may see a figure at a distance, and say first
118 Intro|             the body, and then by a figure have been transferred to
119 Text |      opposed to white: or again, as figure is like figure, for all
120 Text |            again, as figure is like figure, for all figures are comprehended
121 Text |            he will say—‘No, it is a figure made by the shepherds.’~


The Republic
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122 5    |       respectable persons too, in a figure pulling off their coats
123 5    |       therefore the distinctions of figure, color, and the like, which
124 6    |         fiction, and put together a figure made up of many things,
125 6    |           the interpretation of the figure, which describes the true
126 7    |            I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened
127 7    |            number and in every true figure. Now, these are to be apprehended
128 7    |             part of virtue, is in a figure lame or a bastard. ~That
129 8    |             in them, and which in a figure turn the scale and draw
130 8    |             x 100), and the other a figure having one side equal to
131 8    |            represents a geometrical figure which has control over the
132 9    |          can only be expressed in a figure. ~How do you mean? ~I assume,
133 9    |           of length will be a plane figure. ~Certainly. ~And if you


The Seventh Letter
    Part
134 Text |            his own invention, or to figure as a man possessed of culture,


The Sophist
    Part
135 Intro|           under a similar name is a figure. Freedom and necessity,
136 Intro|            us seems to be as much a figure of speech as the old notion
137 Text |          appear like another in his figure or his voice, imitation
138 Text |            surely know you and your figure?~THEAETETUS: Naturally.~
139 Text |           what would you say of the figure or form of justice or of


The Statesman
    Part
140 Intro|            statuary he has made the figure or outline too large, and
141 Intro|        confounded them.~And yet the figure of the king is still defective.
142 Intro|           be said to represent in a figure—(1) the state of innocence; (
143 Intro|           the web furnish us with a figure of speech, which we can
144 Intro|        ourselves to be deluded by a figure of speech. The ideal of
145 Intro|             dissimilar natures, the figure of the warp and the woof,
146 Text |              and in my judgment the figure of the king is not yet perfected;
147 Text |        which are represented in the figure as spun thick and soft,


The Symposium
    Part
148 Intro|           of love, as of number and figure, were everywhere discerned;
149 Intro|           of divine loves under the figure of human (compare Eph. ‘
150 Intro|                It is also used as a figure of speech which no one interpreted
151 Text |          shall praise Socrates in a figure which will appear to him
152 Text |             and they represent in a figure not only himself, but his


Theaetetus
    Part
153 Intro|            negative conclusion, the figure of the midwives, the constant
154 Intro|            our instructor at a high figure; and why should we be less
155 Intro|           the poets, who speak in a figure of Oceanus and Tethys; the
156 Intro|          are put in; for under this figure we may describe different
157 Intro|          realized by us at all. The figure of the mind receiving impressions
158 Intro|            be got rid of. The other figure of the enclosure is also
159 Intro|        after having indulged in the figure of the waxen tablet and
160 Intro|          and religion the imaginary figure or association easily takes
161 Intro|             a book. This is another figure of speech, which might be
162 Text |              and when regarded as a figure, is contained in unequal
163 Text |          some of them making a poor figure, if you did not strip and
164 Text |            say, we see and know the figure and colour of the letters,


Timaeus
    Part
165 Intro|          applications of number and figure (Rep.). His mind lingers
166 Intro|           which is the most perfect figure and the figure of the universe.
167 Intro|         most perfect figure and the figure of the universe. They were
168 Intro|         until God fashioned them by figure and number. In this, as
169 Intro|          cube. And there is a fifth figure (which is made out of twelve
170 Intro|           the pyramid, which is the figure of fire, is more cutting
171 Intro|            to the other.~Number and figure were the greatest instruments
172 Intro|            expression in number and figure. Instruments of such power
173 Intro|           seen there was number and figure, why should they not also
174 Intro|             they applied number and figure equally to those parts of
175 Intro|        world pervaded by number and figure, animated by a principle
176 Intro|           be, but is described in a figure only as past or future.
177 Intro|           four solid angles in this figure is a little larger than
178 Intro|          fire’ or heat is also in a figure the circulation of the blood.
179 Intro|          their origin in number and figure; (8) the annihilation of
180 Intro|         Even physiology partakes of figure and number; and Plato is
181 Intro|        himself have told) where the figure or myth ends and the philosophical
182 Text |            he gave to the world the figure which was suitable and also
183 Text |        comprehend all animals, that figure was suitable which comprehends
184 Text |             i.e. of the rectangular figure supposed to be inscribed
185 Text |         i.e. across the rectangular figure from corner to corner) to
186 Text |     likeness of the universe in the figure of a circle, and made them
187 Text |             every plane rectilinear figure is composed of triangles;
188 Text |      produced the fourth elementary figure, which is compounded of
189 Text |             plane right angles; the figure of the body thus composed
190 Text |        Wherefore, in assigning this figure to earth, we adhere to probability;
191 Text |            forget that the original figure of fire (i.e. the pyramid),