The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           The disseminators of this tale are the accusers whom I
  2 Text |         better. I will tell you the tale of my wanderings and of
  3 Text |             once. I will tell you a tale of the courts, not very


Charmides
    Part
  4 PreS |     witnesses who agree in the same tale, they stand or fall together.


Critias
    Part
  5 Intro|          story. To the Greek such a tale, like that of the earth-born
  6 Intro|           occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that the
  7 Intro|        unhesitatingly, accepted the tale of the Island of Atlantis.
  8 Intro|          Continent of America. ‘The tale,’ says M. Martin, ‘rests
  9 Text |            was intending to use the tale for his poem, enquired into
 10 Text |          came to be introduced. The tale, which was of great length,


Crito
    Part
 11 Intro|           inhabitants as an amusing tale. But if he offends them
 12 Text |         will be charmed to hear the tale of your escape from prison,


Gorgias
    Part
 13 Intro|            good statesman. The same tale might be repeated about
 14 Intro|             which I will tell you a tale:—~Under the rule of Cronos,
 15 Intro|      universe is a suit of clothes, Tale of a Tub). The fiction seems
 16 Intro|         gives verisimilitude to the tale.~It is scarcely necessary
 17 Intro|     beautiful but rather artificial tale of Prometheus and Epimetheus
 18 Intro|          these may be added (6) the tale of the grasshoppers, and (
 19 Intro|           grasshoppers, and (7) the tale of Thamus and of Theuth,
 20 Intro|      politicians: (12) the ironical tale of the pilot who plies between
 21 Intro|          the past: for example, the tale of the earth-born men in
 22 Intro|         from the consistency of the tale to its truth. The new order
 23 Intro|      theocratical. In this fanciful tale Plato has dropped, or almost
 24 Text |           with the word, invented a tale in which he called the soul—
 25 Text |              but people say that ‘a tale should have a head and not
 26 Text |            unjustly perish,’—so the tale runs. But the cry is all
 27 Text | story-tellers say, to a very pretty tale, which I dare say that you
 28 Text |             as I believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak the
 29 Text |             as possible.’~From this tale, Callicles, which I have
 30 Text |            to be only an old wife’s tale, which you will contemn.


Ion
    Part
 31 Text |         frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled


Laws
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 32 1    |           And thus the moral of the tale about our being puppets
 33 3    |        proceed with the rest of our tale, which will probably be
 34 3    |     Cambyses.~Cleinias. So runs the tale, and such probably were
 35 4    |        appropriately; and since the tale is to the point, you will
 36 4    |             or will not accept this tale of mine.~Cleinias. Certainly
 37 6    |        should not like to leave the tale wandering all over the world
 38 7    |        singular and unusual. For my tale is one, which many a man
 39 7    |           this wise let my fanciful tale about letters and teachers
 40 9    |           let him not forget also a tale of olden time, which is
 41 9    |           must repeat once more the tale which we narrated a little
 42 11   |          children. He who obeys the tale which precedes the law,
 43 12   |            my meaning by an ancient tale:—If Patroclus had been brought


Lysis
    Part
 44 Text |             and very ridiculous the tale is: for although he is a


Phaedo
    Part
 45 Intro|           town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates
 46 Text |            sleeping and waking, the tale of the sleeping Endymion
 47 Text |         could prove the truth of my tale, which I myself should never
 48 Text |             can tell you a charming tale, Simmias, which is well
 49 Text |       charmed to listen to you.~The tale, my friend, he said, is
 50 Text |       reason why I lengthen out the tale. Wherefore, I say, let a


Phaedrus
    Part
 51 Intro|           myth.~Socrates begins his tale with a glorification of
 52 Intro|            There is an old Egyptian tale of Theuth, the inventor
 53 Intro|           understandings. From this tale, of which young Athens will
 54 Intro|            about mythology; (2) the tale of the grasshoppers.~The
 55 Intro|       diviner, but a poor one.’~The tale of the grasshoppers is naturally
 56 Text |             narration?~PHAEDRUS: My tale, Socrates, is one of your
 57 Text |            that he would repeat the tale, he gave himself airs and
 58 Text |       Socrates, do you believe this tale?~SOCRATES: The wise are
 59 Text |              help, O help me in the tale which my good friend here
 60 Text |           both of them. Leaving the tale to its fate, I will cross
 61 Text |            at the beginning of this tale, I divided each soul into
 62 Text |           and from what country the tale comes.~PHAEDRUS: I acknowledge


Philebus
    Part
 63 Text |          and disappear like an idle tale, although we might ourselves


The Republic
    Book
 64 1    |             and at our meetings the tale of my acquaintance commonly
 65 2    |             the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good,
 66 3    |          would you say again to the tale of Zeus, who, while other
 67 3    |             parents" ~or that other tale of how Hephaestus, because
 68 3    |           allow to be repeated, the tale of Theseus, son of Poseidon,
 69 3    |              only an old Phoenician tale of what has often occurred
 70 3    |            shall say to them in our tale, you are brothers, yet God
 71 3    |           be destroyed. Such is the tale; is there any possibility
 72 3    |           be made to believe in the tale, and their sons' sons, and
 73 4    |             said. ~The moral of the tale is, that anger at times
 74 8    |            man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of
 75 8    |       temple of Lycaean Zeus. ~What tale? ~The tale is that he who
 76 8    |      Lycaean Zeus. ~What tale? ~The tale is that he who has tasted
 77 10   |      repeated the remainder of your tale of horrors. But will you
 78 10   |             said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which
 79 10   |       Alcinous, yet this, too, is a tale of a hero, Er the son of
 80 10   |              And thus, Glaucon, the tale has been saved and has not


The Statesman
    Part
 81 Intro|           to us in a famous ancient tale: the tale will also enable
 82 Intro|            famous ancient tale: the tale will also enable us to distinguish
 83 Intro|       stories is to be found in the tale which I am about to narrate.~
 84 Intro|             here is the point of my tale. In the fulness of time,
 85 Intro|            perfect coherence of the tale, though he is very well
 86 Intro|            old to be amused ‘with a tale which a child would love
 87 Intro|          the improbabilities of the tale may be said to rest. These
 88 Intro|          compared with the didactic tale in which Protagoras describes
 89 Intro|           think to be an old wife’s tale, but you can think of nothing
 90 Intro|        veiled form. Here, as in the tale of Er, the son of Armenius,
 91 Intro|         solution of them. In such a tale, as in the Phaedrus, various
 92 Text |        amusement; there is a famous tale, of which a good portion
 93 Text |        STRANGER: Listen, then, to a tale which a child would love
 94 Text |           well be told now; for the tale is suited to throw light
 95 Text |        consistent the sequel of the tale is; after the return of
 96 Text |          why we have unearthed this tale, and then we shall be able
 97 Text |     immortal. And this is the whole tale, of which the first part
 98 Text |             multitude by a pleasing tale and not by teaching?~YOUNG


The Symposium
    Part
 99 Intro|             next, then takes up the tale:—He says that Phaedrus should
100 Intro|        discord begins. Then the old tale has to be repeated of fair
101 Intro|              Such, Phaedrus, is the tale which I heard from the stranger
102 Text |            Glaucon, let us have the tale over again; is not the road
103 Text |              APOLLODORUS: Well, the tale of love was on this wise:—
104 Text |             is needed. Then the old tale has to be repeated of fair
105 Text |           gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who,
106 Text |      Aphrodite, masters him, as the tale runs; and the master is
107 Text |             you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from
108 Text |           and who his mother?’ ‘The tale,’ she said, ‘will take time;
109 Text |           them.~I have told you one tale, and now I must tell you


Theaetetus
    Part
110 Text |    Theaetetus, the bearings of this tale on the preceding argument?~
111 Text |           and I have heard the same tale.~THEAETETUS: I do not know


Timaeus
    Part
112 Intro|         Listen then, Socrates, to a tale of Solon’s, who, being the
113 Intro|           Critias when he told this tale of the olden time, was ninety
114 Intro|          symbolized in the Hellenic tale of young Phaethon who drove
115 Intro|       Atlantic ocean.’~Such was the tale, Socrates, which Critias
116 Intro|            add a fair ending to our tale. As I said at first, all
117 Intro|            Egypt and Asia? Like the tale of Troy, or the legend of
118 Intro|      history of the human mind. The tale of Atlantis is the fabric
119 Intro|           which he has given to the tale is a further reason for
120 Intro|            of them? And how was the tale transferred to the poem
121 Intro|             moment suppose that the tale was told to Solon by an
122 Text |         Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is
123 Text |         life, and had completed the tale which he brought with him
124 Text |          any poet.~And what was the tale about, Critias? said Amynander.~
125 Text |         your city and citizens, the tale which I have just been repeating
126 Text |             difficulty is to find a tale suitable to our purpose,
127 Text |       purpose, and that with such a tale we should be fairly well
128 Text |            at once communicated the tale to my companions as I remembered
129 Text |         ready to tell you the whole tale. I will give you not only
130 Text |         therefore you must tell the tale, and good luck to you; and
131 Text |              in accordance with the tale of Solon, and equally with
132 Text |          and we ought to accept the tale which is probable and enquire
133 Text |             to the beginning of our tale.~As I said at first, when