The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|       worth noticing, because the writing in which they are contained


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreS |       legitimate element of prose writing, they may help to lighten
  3 PreS |  maintained that ordinary English writing, such as the newspaper article,
  4 Text |            And yet if reading and writing are the same as doing, you


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|         been amusing his fancy by writing a comedy in the form of
  6 Intro|        inventors of language, but writing and speaking, and particularly
  7 Intro|   language than any other ancient writing. But feeling the uncertain
  8 Intro|         and accent, of speech and writing, of poetry and prose. We
  9 Intro|            and a greater still in writing, taking the place of one
 10 Intro|       unconscious? In speaking or writing have we present to our minds
 11 Intro|           they acquire the use of writing and have a literature of
 12 Intro|    language in conversation or in writing, how we put words together,
 13 Intro|      either from the influence of writing and literature, or because
 14 Intro|          speech and by the use of writing and printing. (2) The meaning
 15 Intro|      speech. (2) The invention of writing again is commonly attributed
 16 Intro|        time to perfect the art of writing, and another long period
 17 Intro|        poetry or the invention of writing, languages were only dialects.
 18 Intro|           of the country in which writing was not used or in which
 19 Intro|         expression, especially in writing, tautology begins to appear.
 20 Text |           with an eta, in the old writing eros with an epsilon.)~SOCRATES:


Critias
    Part
 21 Intro|       were ignorant of the art of writing, and during many generations
 22 Text |       were ignorant of the art of writing, and had heard only the
 23 Text |       that the early Egyptians in writing them down had translated
 24 Text |        Dropides, had the original writing, which is still in my possession,
 25 Text |          help, offend against the writing on the pillar, and would


Crito
    Part
 26 Intro|         popular good-will. Plato, writing probably in the next generation,


Euthydemus
    Part
 27 Text |         scribes most fortunate in writing and reading letters?~Certainly.~


Euthyphro
    Part
 28 Intro|   Euthyphro is a genuine Platonic writing. The spirit in which the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 29 Pre  |           instance of any ancient writing proved to be a forgery,
 30 Pre  |          the form of the Platonic writing was common to several of
 31 Pre  |       distinct titles. An unknown writing was naturally attributed
 32 Pre  |       genuineness of a particular writing, if this lost literature
 33 Pre  |   scholars in the case of a short writing; but this is inconceivable
 34 Text |           you learned the arts of writing, of playing on the lyre,
 35 Text |        and give them advice about writing?~ALCIBIADES: No, indeed.~


Gorgias
    Part
 36 Intro|            The great art of novel writing, that peculiar creation
 37 Intro|          the sister art of review writing, threatens to absorb all
 38 Intro|        savoir faire,’ or trick of writing, but he has not the higher
 39 Intro|         to be found in any modern writing. This is due to their homeliness
 40 Intro|      habit of opposing speech and writing, poetry and prose. But he


Laws
    Book
 41 6    |          to the altar of the God, writing down on a tablet the name
 42 7    |         compositions committed to writing which are not set to the
 43 7    |           have a great many poets writing in hexameter, trimeter,
 44 7    |          them, and commit them to writing. And, first of all, he shall
 45 8    |         of the city, and claim in writing the value of the loss; if
 46 9    |          and threaten, and, after writing their decrees on walls,
 47 10   |      there are tales preserved in writing which the virtue of your
 48 11   |     trades, and they shall fix in writing and strictly maintain what
 49 12   |   colleagues; and let him place a writing in the agora about each
 50 12   |      denial to the magistrates in writing, and not swear; for it is


Lysis
    Part
 51 Text |     guilty of all these errors in writing poetry. For I can hardly


Menexenus
    Part
 52 Pre  |           instance of any ancient writing proved to be a forgery,
 53 Pre  |          the form of the Platonic writing was common to several of
 54 Pre  |       distinct titles. An unknown writing was naturally attributed
 55 Pre  |       genuineness of a particular writing, if this lost literature
 56 Pre  |   scholars in the case of a short writing; but this is inconceivable
 57 Intro|          give a hint, or some one writing in his name, intimates clearly
 58 Intro|        the Menexenus is a genuine writing of Plato, or an imitation


Parmenides
    Part
 59 Intro|           to say, that no ancient writing of equal length and excellence
 60 Text |           the motive, however, of writing, was not the ambition of


Phaedo
    Part
 61 Intro|         well as in the spirit, by writing verses as well as by cultivating


Phaedrus
    Part
 62 Intro|           And what is good or bad writing or speaking? While the sun
 63 Intro|          consider the true use of writing. There is an old Egyptian
 64 Intro|           Theuth, the inventor of writing, showing his invention to
 65 Intro|          gathered the lesson that writing is inferior to speech. For
 66 Intro|      inner growth of the mind, by writing only, if at all, as a remedy
 67 Intro|           true order of speech or writing proceeds accordingly. Love,
 68 Intro|    introduction of a considerable writing of another would seem not
 69 Intro|        that speech is superior to writing, in which he may seem also
 70 Intro|        misled him. For speech and writing have really different functions;
 71 Intro|             There may be a use in writing as a preservative against
 72 Intro|       that speech was superior to writing. So in other ages, weary
 73 Intro|          of making many books, of writing articles in reviews, some
 74 Intro|         introduce into speech and writing. He sees clearly how far
 75 Intro| cultivation, so much diligence in writing, and so little mind or real
 76 Text |          fashion: Lysias has been writing about a fair youth who was
 77 Text |           say of a bad writer—his writing is good enough for him;
 78 Text |    probably induce him to give up writing speeches.~SOCRATES: What
 79 Text |          statesmen are ashamed of writing speeches and leaving them
 80 Text |     politicians are so fond as of writing speeches and bequeathing
 81 Text |           names at the top of the writing, out of gratitude to them.~
 82 Text |        they value the practice of writing.~PHAEDRUS: No doubt.~SOCRATES:
 83 Text |      disgrace in the mere fact of writing.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly not.~
 84 Text |           we discuss the rules of writing and speech as we were proposing?~
 85 Text |          confined to speaking and writing in lawsuits, and to speaking
 86 Text |            whether in speaking or writing. But the writers of the
 87 Text |         our method of reading and writing, can we admit that they
 88 Text |           speaking or teaching or writing them, and yet declares that
 89 Text |      propriety and impropriety of writing.~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 90 Text |        Ammon, who should leave in writing or receive in writing any
 91 Text |          in writing or receive in writing any art under the idea that
 92 Text |       certain; or who deemed that writing was at all better than knowledge
 93 Text |           feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting;
 94 Text |          censured, and his art of writing, and his discourses, and
 95 Text |        particulars of which he is writing or speaking, and is able
 96 Text |         passed on the speaking or writing of discourses, and how they
 97 Text |   performance, the fact of his so writing is only a disgrace to him,
 98 Text |          which is the true way of writing, is there clearness and


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 99 Pre  |           Alcibiades is a genuine writing of Plato will not be maintained


The Seventh Letter
    Part
100 Text |         me to admit adequately of writing and exposition, what task
101 Text |        put anything whatever into writing on questions of this nature;
102 Text |           exposition in speech or writing or in replies to questions,
103 Text |         men by committing them to writing. In one word, then, it may
104 Text |           worth, and committed to writing, then surely, not gods,


The Sophist
    Part
105 Intro|          his lawyer-like habit of writing and speaking about all things,


The Statesman
    Part
106 Intro|         genuineness of a Platonic writing.~The search after the Statesman,
107 Text |           them he will deliver in writing, and others will be unwritten;


Theaetetus
    Part
108 Intro|         to cite from a well-known writing what was not to be found
109 Intro|           ask for a sight of this writing, of which he had already
110 Text |          I filled up from memory, writing them out at leisure; and
111 Text |         to ask you to show me the writing, but have put off doing
112 Text |         THEAETETUS: Theodorus was writing out for us something about
113 Text |       non-existence I banish from writing and speech, or you talk


Timaeus
    Part
114 Intro|          It is true that Proclus, writing in the fifth century after