Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |   meeting of a philosopher and a tyrant, once imagined by the genius


Gorgias
    Part
  2 Intro|        the lot of the successful tyrant who is the envy of the world,
  3 Intro|         But this imitator of the tyrant,’ rejoins Callicles, ‘will
  4 Intro|      agreeable than those of the tyrant drowned in luxurious enjoyment.
  5 Intro|         the same judgment on the tyrant now and always; though he
  6 Intro|   dishonoured maiden, and of the tyrant to the parricide, who ‘beats
  7 Intro|        which separates king from tyrant, should not be forgotten.~
  8 Text |         any one, whether he be a tyrant or a rhetorician, kills
  9 Text |       you would not wish to be a tyrant?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean
 10 Text |         rare power, and become a tyrant; for if I think that any
 11 Text |        attempt to make himself a tyrant, and when detected is racked,
 12 Text |        if he escape and become a tyrant, and continue all through
 13 Text |        attempt to make himself a tyrant’?~POLUS: Yes, I did.~SOCRATES:
 14 Text |        who escapes and becomes a tyrant is the more miserable of
 15 Text |        is either a ruler or even tyrant himself, or the equal and
 16 Text |           SOCRATES: But when the tyrant is rude and uneducated,
 17 Text |    greatly his inferior, for the tyrant will despise him, and will
 18 Text |       worth mentioning, whom the tyrant can have, will be one who
 19 Text |          if he is to be like the tyrant in his injustice, and to
 20 Text |         that he who imitates the tyrant will, if he has a mind,
 21 Text |    reports of him, and any other tyrant who is like him. Of these


Laws
    Book
 22 2    |      perfect; or, again, to be a tyrant and do as you like; and
 23 4    |     state which is governed by a tyrant, and let the tyrant be young
 24 4    |         by a tyrant, and let the tyrant be young and have a good
 25 4    |    Certainly.~Athenian. Then our tyrant must have this as well as
 26 4    |      would assume, as you say, a tyrant who was young, temperate,
 27 4    |          lawgiver and an orderly tyrant, and that the change from
 28 4    |         long period of time, the tyrant, if he wishes, can change
 29 4    |         given his orders, like a tyrant, he rushes off with equal
 30 6    |        said of every master, and tyrant, and of every other having


Phaedrus
    Part
 31 Intro|     demagogue; the ninth, into a tyrant. All these are states of
 32 Intro|         also follow, that even a tyrant may live righteously in
 33 Text |           to the ninth that of a tyrant—all these are states of


Philebus
    Part
 34 Intro|        permitted. Though a human tyrant would be intolerable, a
 35 Intro|         be intolerable, a divine tyrant is a very tolerable governor


Protagoras
    Part
 36 Text |         like, whereas law is the tyrant of mankind, and often compels
 37 Text |          to praise and magnify a tyrant or the like, much against


The Republic
    Book
 38 8    |        more take a look into the tyrant's soul, and try to arrive
 39 8    |     State alike, tyranny and the tyrant; these we have now to consider. ~
 40 8    |         is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears
 41 8    | protector begin to change into a tyrant? Clearly when he does what
 42 8    |         become a wolf-that is, a tyrant? ~Inevitably. ~This, I said,
 43 8    |          spite of his enemies, a tyrant full grown. ~That is clear. ~
 44 8    |         no longer protector, but tyrant absolute. ~No doubt, he
 45 8    |         meets; he to be called a tyrant, who is making promises
 46 8    |        for all these reasons the tyrant must be always getting up
 47 8    |        may be expected. ~And the tyrant, if he means to rule, must
 48 8    |      creature, I said, must this tyrant be; he has put to death
 49 8    |       they are the wise whom the tyrant makes his companions. ~Yes,
 50 8    |       return and inquire how the tyrant will maintain that fair,
 51 8    |         not mean to say that the tyrant will use violence? What!
 52 9    |           love has been called a tyrant? ~I should not wonder. ~
 53 9    |         man also the spirit of a tyrant? ~He has. ~And you know
 54 9    |          horrid act. Love is his tyrant, and lives lordly in him
 55 9    |         king, leads him on, as a tyrant leads a State, to the performance
 56 9    | mercenary soldiers of some other tyrant who may probably want them
 57 9    |          a thousand miles of the tyrant; when this noxious class
 58 9    |          one who has most of the tyrant in his own soul, and him
 59 9    |        and him they create their tyrant. ~Yes, he said, and he will
 60 9    |          be the most fit to be a tyrant. ~If the people yield, well
 61 9    |          friends of anybody; the tyrant never tastes of true freedom
 62 9    |        being by nature most of a tyrant bears rule, and the longer
 63 9    |    longer he lives the more of a tyrant he becomes. ~That is certain,
 64 9    |        the city which is under a tyrant, how do they stand as to
 65 9    |         at the apparition of the tyrant, who is only a unit and
 66 9    |      happiness and misery of the tyrant when compared with other
 67 9    |      city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? ~No
 68 9    |        which is enslaved under a tyrant is utterly incapable of
 69 9    |        the soul which is under a tyrant (I am speaking of the soul
 70 9    |        the city which is under a tyrant rich or poor? ~Poor. ~And
 71 9    |     misfortune of being a public tyrant. ~From what has been said,
 72 9    |          may form an idea of the tyrant's condition, for they both
 73 9    |      sort of prison in which the tyrant will be bound-he who being
 74 9    |        by fortune to be a public tyrant? He has to be master of
 75 9    |          and does not the actual tyrant lead a worse life than he
 76 9    |   Certainly. ~He who is the real tyrant, whatever men may think,
 77 9    |        he who being the greatest tyrant of himself is also the greatest
 78 9    |     himself is also the greatest tyrant of his State? ~Make the
 79 9    |         nearest? ~Yes. ~Then the tyrant will live at the greatest
 80 9    |       Certainly. ~But if so, the tyrant will live most unpleasantly,
 81 9    |         the transgression of the tyrant reaches a point beyond the
 82 9    |         assume, I said, that the tyrant is in the third place from
 83 9    |           he is third. ~Then the tyrant is removed from true pleasure
 84 9    |        the interval by which the tyrant is parted from the king. ~
 85 9    |          king is parted from the tyrant in truth of pleasure, he
 86 9    |         more pleasantly, and the tyrant more painfully by this same
 87 10   |      time of Er: he had been the tyrant of some city of Pamphylia,
 88 10   |       them, some lasting out the tyrant's life, others which broke


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 89 Text |     would be contented to become tyrant of Athens, and if this seemed
 90 Text | Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, was tyrant:—in such a case, I imagine,
 91 Text |  expected by his crime to become tyrant and afterwards to have a


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 92 Text |  philosophy, and thinks that the tyrant was in the right. Dionysios


The Sophist
    Part
 93 Intro|        Plato, became in turn the tyrant of the mind, the dominant


The Statesman
    Part
 94 Intro|      just an ignorant brute of a tyrant, who insists always on his
 95 Intro|          passion, he is called a tyrant. These forms of government
 96 Intro|          perfectly good and wise tyrant of the Laws, whose will
 97 Intro|          an ‘ignorant and brutal tyrant,’ but gentle and humane,
 98 Intro|     result from the union of the tyrant who has power with the legislator
 99 Intro|         more at the mercy of the tyrant, who, when things are at
100 Intro|        is an ignorant and brutal tyrant—the tyrant is converted
101 Intro|   ignorant and brutal tyrant—the tyrant is converted into a beneficent
102 Intro|          Statesman. The virtuous tyrant is common to both of them;
103 Text |          led us to rank king and tyrant together, whereas they are
104 Text |        an obstinate and ignorant tyrant, who will not allow anything
105 Text |          such an one be called a tyrant?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
106 Text |          to be the origin of the tyrant and the king, of oligarchies,


Theaetetus
    Part
107 Intro| ridiculous appearance. A king or tyrant appears to him to be a kind
108 Text | downright idiot. When he hears a tyrant or king eulogized, he fancies