The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            and desultory style is an imitation of the ‘accustomed manner’


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreS | participation in them he substituted imitation of them. To quote Dr. Jackson’
  3 PreS |      existing by participation or by imitation, one and many, in different
  4 PreS |  participation in them as well as of imitation of them (Prof. Zeller’s


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|            to conceive of degrees of imitation; a word is either the perfect
  6 Intro|             art or to law. But vocal imitation, like any other copy, may
  7 Intro|            words to be formed by the imitation of ideas in sounds; he also
  8 Intro|              chance. But he gives no imitation in all this that he is preparing
  9 Intro|     endeavours to show Cratylus that imitation may be partial or imperfect,
 10 Intro|             only express anything by imitation; and the tongue or mouth
 11 Intro|           rest of the body. But this imitation of the tongue or voice is
 12 Intro|            or, secondly, a pictorial imitation, but an imitation of that
 13 Intro|          pictorial imitation, but an imitation of that kind which expresses
 14 Intro|            wind, are employed in the imitation of such notions as shivering,
 15 Intro|             that convention is used? Imitation is a poor thing, and has
 16 Intro|             distinguish between mere imitation and the symbolical use of
 17 Intro|         which he gives both modes of imitation. Gesture is the mode which
 18 Intro|         roundness, there is a direct imitation; while in the use of the
 19 Intro|           eta to express length, the imitation is symbolical. The use of
 20 Intro|             and association by which imitation must be regulated. He was
 21 Intro|             that the ‘poor creature’ imitation is supplemented by another ‘
 22 Intro|           involuntary, and may be an imitation of the roar of the animal.
 23 Intro|            interjection or the vocal imitation of the object, but the interjection
 24 Intro|            interjection or the vocal imitation of the object understood,
 25 Intro|           independent existence. The imitation of the lion’s roar calls
 26 Intro|            crowd the mind; the vocal imitation, too, is always in process
 27 Intro|          case not without a power of imitation which is also natural to
 28 Intro|           may witness the delight in imitation and repetition, and some
 29 Intro|              also to the animals, is imitation. The lion roars, the wolf
 30 Intro|            he has heard. The love of imitation becomes a passion and an
 31 Intro|        action of the human mind.~ii. Imitation provided the first material
 32 Intro|         supplement the poor creature imitation by another poor creature
 33 Text |             could not; for by bodily imitation only can the body ever express
 34 Text |           expression is simply their imitation of that which we want to
 35 Text |               Then a name is a vocal imitation of that which the vocal
 36 Text |            Socrates, what sort of an imitation is a name?~SOCRATES: In
 37 Text |          should reply, not a musical imitation, although that is also vocal;
 38 Text |           also vocal; nor, again, an imitation of what music imitates;
 39 Text |             does the imitator begin? Imitation of the essence is made by
 40 Text |        breath; these are used in the imitation of such notions as psuchron (
 41 Text |            signs, and out of them by imitation compounding other signs.
 42 Text |      acknowledge that the name is an imitation of the thing?~CRATYLUS:
 43 Text |          then, whether both sorts of imitation (I mean both pictures or
 44 Text |         things of which they are the imitation.~CRATYLUS: They are.~SOCRATES:
 45 Text |              like the picture, is an imitation. May I not say to him— ‘
 46 Text |             his sense of hearing the imitation of himself, when I say, ‘
 47 Text |              which the names are the imitation: And the original elements


Critias
    Part
 48 Text |             by any of us can only be imitation and representation. For


Gorgias
    Part
 49 Text |           True.~SOCRATES: And by the imitation of his master and by the


Ion
    Part
 50 Intro|              belongs to the realm of imitation and of opinion: he professes


Laws
    Book
 51 2    |      principles, we must assert that imitation is not to be judged of by
 52 2    |            kind of music which is an imitation of the good.~Cleinias. Very
 53 2    |            is true; and the truth of imitation consists, as we were saying,
 54 2    |             first place, of what the imitation is; secondly, he must know
 55 2    |    celebrated than any other kind of imitation, and therefore requires
 56 2    |             point, viz., whether the imitation is good or not, though he
 57 4    |        virtue. I was saying that the imitation of enemies was a bad thing;
 58 6    |              of solo singing, and of imitation—I mean of rhapsodists, players
 59 7    |             distinguish good and bad imitation, that is to say, the imitation
 60 7    |       imitation, that is to say, the imitation of the good or bad soul
 61 7    |          attain virtue by the way of imitation.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 62 7    |         action, as, for example, the imitation of archery and the hurling
 63 7    |         sorts of blows. And when the imitation is of brave bodies and souls,
 64 7    |             still; and so out of the imitation of words in gestures the
 65 7    |            in these various kinds of imitation one man moves in an orderly,
 66 7    |            element of novelty in the imitation. Let these then be laid
 67 7    |            for our whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest


Menexenus
    Part
 68 Intro|    Demosthenes is a bad and spurious imitation of Thucydides and Lysias),
 69 Intro|              writing of Plato, or an imitation only, remains uncertain.
 70 Text |            and generation is but the imitation of the earth, and not the


Parmenides
    Part
 71 Intro|           Plato. It appears to be an imitation, or parody, of the Zenonian
 72 Intro|      speeches in the Phaedrus are an imitation of the style of Lysias,


Phaedo
    Part
 73 Intro|             said to have a shadow or imitation of morality, and imperfect


Philebus
    Part
 74 Text |            men which are a ludicrous imitation of the true, and there are
 75 Text |             is full of guesswork and imitation, and is wanting in purity?~


Protagoras
    Part
 76 Text |           with their ears bruised in imitation of them, and have the caestus


The Republic
    Book
 77 2    |              words is only a kind of imitation and shadowy image of a previous
 78 3    |           either simple narration or imitation, or a union of the two?
 79 3    |             voice or gesture, is the imitation of the person whose character
 80 3    |            said to proceed by way of imitation? ~Very true. ~Or, if the
 81 3    |              himself, then again the imitation is dropped, and his poetry
 82 3    |           words would have been, not imitation, but simple narration. The
 83 3    |            what parts; or should all imitation be prohibited? ~You mean,
 84 3    |              this is equally true of imitation; no one man can imitate
 85 3    |             even when two species of imitation are nearly allied, the same
 86 3    |  illiberality or baseness, lest from imitation they should come to be what
 87 3    |              ashamed of this sort of imitation: he will be most ready to
 88 3    |           entire art will consist in imitation of voice and gesture, and
 89 3    |         panharmonic music is only an imitation of the flute? ~Clearly not. ~
 90 5    |            replied; they are only an imitation. ~He said: Who then are
 91 6    |             seen only a conventional imitation of philosophy, consisting
 92 7    | contradicting and refuting others in imitation of those who refute them;
 93 10   |      question. ~Can you tell me what imitation is? for I really do not
 94 10   |           painting designed to be-an imitation of things as they are, or
 95 10   |          knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ~Most true. ~And so, when
 96 10   |  image-making branch? Would he allow imitation to be the ruling principle
 97 10   |      mentioning of what he imitates. Imitation is only a kind of play or
 98 10   |               I conjure you, has not imitation been shown by us to be concerned
 99 10   |              faculty in man to which imitation is addressed? ~What do you
100 10   |             painting or drawing, and imitation in general, when doing their
101 10   |          faculty with which poetical imitation is concerned is good or
102 10   |             state the question thus: Imitation imitates the actions of
103 10   |             variety of materials for imitation? Whereas the wise and calm
104 10   |         friend and the sister art of imitation, that if she will only prove


The Sophist
    Part
105 Intro|           had become eclecticism and imitation: in the decline of Greek
106 Intro|             at a small cost. For all imitation is a jest, and the most
107 Intro|      falsehood, or false opinion, or imitation, without falling into a
108 Intro|          that image-making may be an imitation of realities or an imitation
109 Intro|         imitation of realities or an imitation of appearances, which last
110 Intro|            may be again divided into imitation by the help of instruments
111 Intro|             will venture to call the imitation of science, and the latter
112 Intro|          science, and the latter the imitation of opinion.~The latter is
113 Text |              and there is the art of imitation—all these may be appropriately
114 Text |           graceful form of jest than imitation?~THEAETETUS: Certainly not;
115 Text |       THEAETETUS: Certainly not; and imitation is a very comprehensive
116 Text |         until in some sub-section of imitation he is caught. For our method
117 Text |           not this always the aim of imitation?~STRANGER: Not always; in
118 Text |              in painting, and in all imitation.~THEAETETUS: Of course.~
119 Text |             the art of creation; for imitation is a kind of creation—of
120 Text |            and the image, with which imitation is concerned.~THEAETETUS:
121 Text |             his figure or his voice, imitation is the name for this part
122 Text |        STRANGER: Was not the sort of imitation of which we spoke just now
123 Text |          which we spoke just now the imitation of those who know? For he
124 Text |           will make bold to call the imitation which coexists with opinion,
125 Text |           coexists with opinion, the imitation of appearance—that which
126 Text |              a scientific or learned imitation.~THEAETETUS: Granted.~STRANGER:


The Statesman
    Part
127 Text |              reputed to be, were, in imitation of you, to make a similar
128 Text |        hunting, or about painting or imitation in general, or carpentry,
129 Text |              they had knowledge, the imitation would be the perfect truth,
130 Text |            the perfect truth, and an imitation no longer.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
131 Text |            rules according to law in imitation of him who knows, we call
132 Text |     ignorance are the motives of the imitation, may not such an one be


The Symposium
    Part
133 Intro|          recalls the first speech in imitation of Lysias, occurring in


Timaeus
    Part
134 Intro|           sense of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony in mortal
135 Text |             of a mortal creature, in imitation of their own creator they
136 Text |              the second was only the imitation of the pattern, generated
137 Text |            sort of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony in mortal
138 Text |       treated in the same manner, in imitation of the pattern of the universe;
139 Text |         perishes; but if any one, in imitation of that which we call the