The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        the chance case of a Comic poet. All who from envy and malice


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreF |   philosophical system. He is the poet or maker of ideas, satisfying
  3 Text |           and also a considerable poet, not in his own opinion
  4 Text |       quarrel with him; just as a poet might quarrel with an actor


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|      forms of language. He is the poet or maker of words, as in
  6 Intro|         in the description of the poet. Words now can be used more
  7 Intro|       contrasts of all sorts. The poet with his ‘Break, break,
  8 Intro|           the course of ages. The poet of language cannot put in
  9 Intro|         sometimes made by a great poet the vehicle of his fancies.
 10 Text |   disposed to think; and what the poet means by correctness may
 11 Text |         the name, or perhaps some poet who meant to express the
 12 Text |         their explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by


Critias
    Part
 13 Intro|           the chance word of some poet or philosopher has given


Euthydemus
    Part
 14 Intro|          most nearly to the comic poet. The mirth is broader, the


Euthyphro
    Part
 15 Text |     surprise: he says that I am a poet or maker of gods, and that
 16 Text |           what I do not mean. The poet (Stasinus) sings—~‘Of Zeus,
 17 Text |          Now I disagree with this poet. Shall I tell you in what


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 18 Text |          Alcibiades, as the comic poet says, the neighbours hardly


Gorgias
    Part
 19 Intro|          observation that he is a poet as well as a philosopher;
 20 Intro|          Thucyd.)~Who is the true poet?~Plato expels the poets
 21 Intro|         admitting of a moral. The poet and the prophet, or preacher,
 22 Intro|          Yet the true office of a poet or writer of fiction is
 23 Intro|           material of poetry. The poet clothes them with beauty,
 24 Intro|   greatest deeds of the past. The poet of the future may return
 25 Intro|          any serious purpose, the poet lends wings to his fancy
 26 Text |    market-place, in which, as the poet says, men become distinguished;


Ion
    Part
 27 Intro|          recitations of any other poet. ‘And yet, surely, he who
 28 Intro|         mysterious power from the poet; and the poet, in like manner,
 29 Intro|      power from the poet; and the poet, in like manner, is inspired
 30 Intro|        immediately follows is the poet himself; from him are suspended
 31 Intro|         all is the spectator. The poet is the inspired interpreter
 32 Intro|       inspired interpreter of the poet, and for a similar reason
 33 Intro|  contained in the notion that the poet is inspired. Genius is often
 34 Intro|        mind when he describes the poet as inspired, or when, as
 35 Text |     understand the meaning of the poet. For the rhapsode ought
 36 Text |         interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how
 37 Text |           one speaks of any other poet; but when Homer is mentioned,
 38 Text |         And the soul of the lyric poet does the same, as they themselves
 39 Text |         And this is true. For the poet is a light and winged and
 40 Text |           for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
 41 Text |       intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of
 42 Text |          from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom
 43 Text |      repeats the words of another poet you go to sleep, and know


Laches
    Part
 44 Text |         nations, just as a tragic poet would who is honoured among


Laws
    Book
 45 1    |           Tyrtaeus: O most divine poet, we will say to him, the
 46 1    |        battles. And we too have a poet whom we summon as a witness,
 47 1    |            and was praised by the poet at the right time, yet in
 48 2    |       conditioned parents? Is the poet to train his choruses as
 49 2    |         persuade, will compel the poet to express, as he ought,
 50 2    |           lives in misery? As the poet says, and with truth: I
 51 2    |           to the rhythm which the poet has assigned to it?~Cleinias.
 52 2    |         poets themselves. For the poet need not know the third
 53 3    |       That seems to be a charming poet of yours; I have read some
 54 3    |          to nature, as the Theban poet Pindar once said; and the
 55 4    |           him?~Athenian. That the poet, according to the tradition
 56 7    |      Shall we make a law that the poet shall compose nothing contrary
 57 7    |      forward in the spirit of the poet:~Telemachus, some things
 58 7    |    strings give one sound and the poet or composer of the melody
 59 8    |         victors—not however every poet, but only one who in the
 60 8    |     language of tragedy? When the poet introduces on the stage
 61 10   |         idle, like those whom the poet compares to stingless drones?~
 62 11   |          innocent humour. A comic poet, or maker of iambic or satirical
 63 11   |   whatever he rejects let not the poet himself exhibit, or ever
 64 12   |          original arms, which the poet says were presented to Peleus
 65 12   |           and vice? Or shall some poet who has found his way into


Lysis
    Part
 66 Text |         affirm a man to be a good poet who injures himself by his
 67 Text |    Assuredly not, he said; such a poet would be a fool. And this
 68 Text |     beloved by them; and that the poet was wrong who sings—~‘Happy


Menexenus
    Part
 69 Text |          worthy deeds of which no poet has worthily sung, and which
 70 Text |        which are still wooing the poet’s muse. Of these I am bound


Meno
    Part
 71 Intro|  gentleman, and in the words of a poet, ‘that virtue is to delight
 72 Intro|         priestesses, and from the poet Pindar, of an immortal soul
 73 Intro|      would not have preferred the poet or man of action to the
 74 Intro|         yet the statesman and the poet are inspired. There may
 75 Intro|         Republic, is taken from a poet. His answers have a sophistical
 76 Text |    provide it for himself; so the poet says, and I say too—~‘Virtue
 77 Text |        not, but that Theognis the poet says the very same thing?~


Phaedo
    Part
 78 Intro|          been asked by Evenus the poet (compare Apol.): ‘Why Socrates,
 79 Intro|           Socrates, who was not a poet, while in prison had been
 80 Intro|           furnish a theme for the poet or the painter, but they
 81 Intro|           the descriptions of the poet or rhetorician.~15. The
 82 Intro|  consolations of immortality, the poet Pindar and the tragedians
 83 Intro|         Me already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of
 84 Text |           yesterday by Evenus the poet —he will be sure to ask
 85 Text |           then considering that a poet, if he is really to be a
 86 Text |           if he is really to be a poet, should not only put together
 87 Text |         Me already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of


Phaedrus
    Part
 88 Intro|         mystic; the sixth, into a poet or imitator; the seventh,
 89 Intro|          innocent friendship. The poet might describe in eloquent
 90 Intro| allegorical meaning, and that the poet is only describing his own
 91 Intro|        Michael Angelo, or a great poet, such as Shakespeare, returning
 92 Intro|      appear to be the dreams of a poet who is disguised as a philosopher.
 93 Text |         the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing
 94 Text |        the sixth the character of poet or some other imitative
 95 Text |          ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote
 96 Text |         in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach
 97 Text |        some, may be justly called poet or speech-maker or law-maker.~


Protagoras
    Part
 98 Intro|          contradiction. First the poet says,~‘Hard is it to become
 99 Text |     sculptor, and that Homer is a poet; but what appellation is
100 Text |    savages, for example, whom the poet Pherecrates exhibited on
101 Text |       reference to a passage of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas
102 Text |       reflected.~And does not the poet proceed to say, ‘I do not
103 Text |          this is said by the same poet.~I know it.~And do you think,
104 Text |           what the meaning of the poet really was. So I turned
105 Text |        said.~How so? I asked.~The poet, he replied, could never
106 Text |        may become bad, as another poet witnesses:—~‘The good are
107 Text |          declaring, some that the poet has one meaning, and others


The Republic
    Book
108 1    |          well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer
109 2    |         in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which
110 2    |          to Homer or to any other poet who is guilty of the folly
111 2    |       destroy a house." ~And if a poet writes of the sufferings
112 2    |        author of their misery-the poet is not to be permitted to
113 2    |          he said. ~Then the lying poet has no place in our idea
114 3    |         the "Iliad," in which the poet says that Chryses prayed
115 3    |       chiefs of the people," ~the poet is speaking in his own person;
116 3    |         in the speeches which the poet recites from time to time
117 3    |         Quite true. ~But when the poet speaks in the person of
118 3    |         case the narrative of the poet may be said to proceed by
119 3    |            Very true. ~Or, if the poet everywhere appears and never
120 3    |           run as follows (I am no poet, and therefore I drop the
121 3    |      opposite style, in which the poet is the only speaker-of this
122 3    |           the rougher and severer poet or story-teller, who will
123 4    |          to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation
124 10   |          he said. ~And the tragic poet is an imitator, and, therefore,
125 10   |     things too, for that the good poet cannot compose well unless
126 10   |          knowledge can never be a poet, we ought to consider whether
127 10   |          to ask him, or any other poet, whether he has cured patients
128 10   |       truth they never reach? The poet is like a painter who, as
129 10   |           so. ~In like manner the poet with his words and phrases
130 10   |    Certainly. ~Then the imitative poet who aims at being popular
131 10   |           maintain, the imitative poet implants an evil constitution,
132 10   |          at the excellence of the poet who stirs our feelings most. ~
133 10   |   yourself into playing the comic poet at home. ~Quite true, he


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
134 Pre  |        poets:—the remark that the poet, who is of a reserved disposition,
135 Text |          He must have been a wise poet, Alcibiades, who, seeing
136 Text |         In my opinion, I say, the poet spoke both well and prudently;
137 Text |         apply to him in which the poet blamed his enemy:—~‘...Full
138 Text |     Socrates, do the words of the poet apply to him? They seem
139 Text |         my sweet friend: only the poet is talking in riddles after
140 Text |       wisdom to discover what the poet would be at. You surely
141 Text |        metre will suffer, but the poet’s meaning is clear;—‘Margites
142 Text |         SOCRATES: And was not the poet whose words I originally
143 Text |    whether from admiration of the poet or because they have discovered


The Sophist
    Part
144 Intro|         the language of the Greek poet, ‘There is a great God in
145 Intro|     matter of indifference to the poet or philosopher. We may need
146 Intro|     glimpses of the genius of the poet and of the common sense


The Symposium
    Part
147 Intro|          is wise too; for he is a poet, and the author of poesy
148 Intro|        bring the comic and tragic poet into juxtaposition, as if
149 Intro|          the speech of the tragic poet and a sort of poem, like
150 Intro|          is stronger in the comic poet Aristophanes, Agathon, the
151 Intro| Aristophanes, Agathon, the tragic poet, has a deeper sense of harmony
152 Text |           is no memorial; neither poet nor prose-writer has ever
153 Text |        tender; he ought to have a poet like Homer to describe his
154 Text |           the first place he is a poet (and here, like Eryximachus,
155 Text |          if he were not himself a poet. And at the touch of him
156 Text |           him every one becomes a poet, even though he had no music
157 Text |         proof that Love is a good poet and accomplished in all


Theaetetus
    Part
158 Intro|           heart,’ as the all-wise poet sings, when the wax is muddy
159 Intro| particular understanding.’ Like a poet, he surveyed the elements
160 Text |        quality which the all-wise poet commends, or muddy and of


Timaeus
    Part
161 Intro|         yet been fashioned by any poet or philosopher to describe
162 Intro|          common tools; or to some poet or musician, like Tynnichus (
163 Text |           Homer or Hesiod, or any poet.~And what was the tale about,