The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |          wisdom which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself;


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|              which grammar seeks to describe: into the idiom and higher
  3 Intro|             It is always wanting to describe ancient languages in the


Critias
    Part
  4 Text |              this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on the
  5 Text |            on the scene; but I must describe first of all the Athenians
  6 Text |            the island, which I will describe. Looking towards the sea,
  7 Text |            kind of work.~I will now describe the plain, as it was fashioned


Euthydemus
    Part
  8 Intro|       contradiction. When you and I describe the same thing, or you describe
  9 Intro|     describe the same thing, or you describe one thing and I describe
 10 Intro|            describe one thing and I describe another, how can there be
 11 Text |            right hand of me, as you describe; and Dionysodorus and Euthydemus,
 12 Text |        proposition also.~But when I describe something and you describe
 13 Text |          describe something and you describe another thing, or I say


Euthyphro
    Part
 14 Text |           we quarrel is such as you describe.~SOCRATES: And the quarrels


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 15 Intro|             which religious writers describe under the name of ‘conversion,’
 16 Text |              SOCRATES: Might we not describe their different effects


Gorgias
    Part
 17 Intro|   persevering retort: You could not describe Zeuxis as a painter, or
 18 Text |             by what name we were to describe Gorgias. And I would still
 19 Text |        while others are such as you describe.~SOCRATES: I am contented


Ion
    Part
 20 Text |      Odyssee for you passages which describe the office of the prophet


Laws
    Book
 21 2    |         from being the same, as you describe the Egyptian to be, or having
 22 4    |            she bade me bury her and describe her burial in a poem, I
 23 5    |             the temperate life will describe it as in all things gentle,
 24 6    |        conveniently situated as you describe. I have been speaking of
 25 6    |            we will do our utmost to describe what is important, and will
 26 6    |              we may next proceed to describe their dwellings.~Cleinias.
 27 7    |             is this study which you describe as wonderful and fitting
 28 10   |           or compound—how should we describe it?~Cleinias. You mean to


Meno
    Part
 29 Text |          BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES: Let us describe such a figure: Would you


Parmenides
    Part
 30 Intro|           was ‘a very good word’ to describe the simplest generalization


Phaedo
    Part
 31 Intro|       understand this, I must first describe to you the nature and conformation
 32 Intro|             writings of Plato which describe the trial and death of Socrates.
 33 Text |       argument was completed. I may describe to you, however, the form


Phaedrus
    Part
 34 Intro|             lottery.’ Then he would describe their way of life after
 35 Intro|             a modern Socrates might describe the evils of married and
 36 Intro|          friendship. The poet might describe in eloquent words the nature
 37 Intro|   impossible, we at once pass on to describe the souls of gods as well
 38 Intro|           deeper, we can still only describe the outward nature of the
 39 Text |       speech was really such as you describe.~SOCRATES: Well, and is
 40 Text |      worthily? It is such as I will describe; for I must dare to speak
 41 Text |           they write is such as you describe—there I agree with you.
 42 Text |            to him, and how shall we describe him?~SOCRATES: Isocrates


Philebus
    Part
 43 Intro|          writings, may we not truly describe him in his own words as
 44 Text |      specific name which is used to describe the vicious form of a certain


Protagoras
    Part
 45 Text |          and by what name would you describe it?~But why, Socrates, should


The Republic
    Book
 46 2    |              This I will proceed to describe; but as you may think the
 47 2    |          must devote myself. I will describe around me a picture and
 48 3    |           and appalling names which describe the world below-Cocytus
 49 3    |           delineated. Nor should he describe Priam, the kinsman of the
 50 4    |           courage to be such as you describe? ~Why, yes, said I, you
 51 5    |            common feeling which you describe. ~Then when any one of the
 52 6    | philosophers as they really are and describe as you were just now doing
 53 6    |            of other things which we describe and define; to all of them
 54 7    |            to the chief strain, and describe that in like manner. Say,
 55 7    |   difficulty in seeing how we shall describe him. ~There is no difficulty,
 56 8    |          Then let us now proceed to describe the inferior sort of natures,
 57 8    |             of government which you describe is a mixture of good and
 58 8    |           often experience what you describe. You and I have dreamed
 59 9    |         image which will adequately describe him. ~Yes, he said, that
 60 9    |        might truly and intelligibly describe this part of the soul as
 61 9    |         Socrates, said Glaucon, you describe the life of the many like


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 62 Text |            prefer gentler language, describe them as ‘romantic’ or ‘simple-minded,’


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 63 Text |          should scarcely scruple to describe as the most upright man


The Sophist
    Part
 64 Intro|              Symp.). He does indeed describe objects of sense as regarded
 65 Intro|           predicates under which we describe him—signifying no more than
 66 Text |          all, if I am not mistaken, describe as possessing flattery or
 67 Text |             any truth or confidence describe the real nature of the Sophist.~
 68 Text |    THEAETETUS: How, Stranger, can I describe an image except as something
 69 Text |            other verbs.~THEAETETUS: Describe them.~STRANGER: That which
 70 Text |             the two kinds which you describe.~STRANGER: Shall we regard


The Statesman
    Part
 71 Text |             in the manner which you describe.~STRANGER: A perfectly simple
 72 Text |         them, and them alone, can I describe kings and rulers.~YOUNG
 73 Text |        could be such a despot as we describe, they would acknowledge
 74 Text |           his office is such as you describe.~STRANGER: Then the inference
 75 Text |           all into one, if we would describe under a name characteristic
 76 Text |        would.~STRANGER: Then I must describe the nature of the royal


The Symposium
    Part
 77 Text |             the race. I will try to describe his power to you, and you
 78 Text |           have a poet like Homer to describe his tenderness, as Homer
 79 Text |           him, Aristophanes, as you describe (Aristoph. Clouds), just


Theaetetus
    Part
 80 Intro|        right to control us?’~I will describe the leaders, then: for the
 81 Intro|            under this figure we may describe different forms of knowledge;—
 82 Intro|             of rest are employed to describe the faculties and operations
 83 Intro|            the body, and we seek to describe this as well as we can.
 84 Intro|          them into a system than to describe or prove them. It has never
 85 Intro|           men that so far as we can describe to them or they to us the
 86 Intro|          limit the mind, but we can describe it. We can collect information
 87 Text |           this is your wish, I will describe the leaders; for there is
 88 Text |            for what other term will describe the habit of a man who is
 89 Text |            express himself?—will he describe the ‘catching’ of them and
 90 Text |             neither you nor I could describe all of them individually;
 91 Text |            a waggon; but he who can describe its essence by an enumeration


Timaeus
    Part
 92 Intro|          any poet or philosopher to describe physical phenomena. The
 93 Intro|             imitators, who can only describe what they have seen. And
 94 Intro|          olden time. I will briefly describe them to you, and you shall
 95 Intro|         wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first
 96 Intro|           their courses appeared to describe spirals; and that appeared
 97 Intro|        great Eleatic philosopher to describe the nature of God or Being
 98 Intro|        means by this what we should describe as a state of heat or temperature
 99 Intro|            out upon the heavens and describe what he sees in them, but
100 Text |           saw that you wanted me to describe the formation of the State,
101 Text |            to the matter which they describe; when they relate to the
102 Text |    nevertheless we will not fail to describe it. For the larger particles
103 Text |            in a manner which I will describe, and which will be more