Charmides
   Part
 1 PreS |     political and social life. The chief subjects discussed in these


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|            sound from Polemarchus (chief in war), or Eupolemus (good
 3 Intro|           eloquence of the bard or chief, as in later times the creations
 4 Intro|            differentiated. (1) The chief causes which regulate the
 5 Text |           leader) and Polemarchus (chief in war) and Eupolemus (good
 6 Text |        every man should expend his chief thought and attention on


Euthydemus
   Part
 7 Intro|            and Euthydemus, are the chief performers. They are natives
 8 Intro|      uproarious young man. But the chief study of all is the picture
 9 Text |         saying just now, that your chief accomplishment was the art


Euthyphro
   Part
10 Intro|      beliefs and difficulties. The chief difference between us and
11 Text |        those of a general. But the chief of them is easily told.
12 Text |         that victory in war is the chief of them?~EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.~
13 Text |           am not mistaken; but his chief work is the production of
14 Text |          by the gods, which is the chief or principal one?~EUTHYPHRO:
15 Text |            in much fewer words the chief question which I asked,


Gorgias
   Part
16 Intro|       wisdom are allowed to be the chief good, but pleasure and good
17 Intro|            praise to be one of the chief incentives to moral virtue,
18 Intro|        fiction is very slight, the chief point or moral being that
19 Text |    Socrates; for persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric.~SOCRATES:
20 Text |   happiness and misery—that is the chief of them. And what knowledge


Laws
   Book
21 1    |           companion. For wisdom is chief and leader of the divine
22 3    |      either all or the greater and chief part of what he desires.~
23 3    |           it not palpable that the chief aim of the kings of that
24 4    |            united with that of the chief men of the state; and when
25 4    |       given the highest office and chief ministry of the gods; and
26 5    |         and track out and find the chief good; which when a man has
27 7    |          us summon him who has the chief concern in the business,
28 8    |          at all. These two are the chief causes of almost all evils,
29 8    |            the husbandmen. And the chief officers of the wardens
30 9    | proceedings, and, being one of the chief magistrates of the state,
31 10   |      before all bodies, and is the chief author of their changes
32 12   |          soul and the head are the chief saviours.~Cleinias. Once


Menexenus
   Part
33 Text |       which they subdued the other chief state of the Hellenes, that
34 Text |         all of us remember how the chief peoples of Hellas, Argives
35 Text |            the Gods have heard the chief part of their prayers; for
36 Text |         but rather let them be our chief and true panegyrists, who


Phaedrus
   Part
37 Intro|         heavenly originals’...~The chief criteria for determining
38 Text |          righteous king or warrior chief; the soul which is of the


Philebus
   Part
39 Intro|          pleasure or wisdom is the chief good, or some nature higher
40 Intro|          one and many has lost its chief interest and perplexity.
41 Intro|        rather a law of nature. The chief difference between subjective
42 Intro|          Book of the Republic. The chief difference is, that the
43 Intro|          and wisdom to rank as the chief good has been already carried
44 Intro|           in which there are three chief elements—truth, symmetry,
45 Intro|       thousand times nearer to the chief good than pleasure. Pleasure
46 Intro|       arguing that pleasure is the chief good, but that we should
47 Intro|  acknowledge that ‘pleasure is the chief good.’ Either they have
48 Intro|         other notions, such as the chief good of Plato, which may
49 Text |    enjoyment and the like were the chief good, you answered—No, not
50 Text |           if either of them is the chief good, it cannot be supposed
51 Text |            it cannot really be the chief good.~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~
52 Text |            moreover that it is the chief good of all, and that the


Protagoras
   Part
53 Intro|            or that pleasure is the chief or only good, is distinctly


The Republic
   Book
54 3    |            Certainly. ~Are not the chief elements of temperance,
55 5    |     ourselves what ought to be the chief aim of the legislator in
56 5    |        children? ~That will be the chief reason. ~And this unity
57 6    |     growing up toward manhood, the chief and special care should
58 7    |       hence they are to snatch the chief good, order there can never
59 7    |        with neither, and that your chief aim in carrying on the argument
60 7    |         prelude or preamble to the chief strain, and describe that
61 7    |            making philosophy their chief pursuit, but, when their
62 8    |           his chorus, or given him chief honor. ~Excellent! I said.


The Sophist
   Part
63 Intro|            juggler with words.~The chief points of interest in the
64 Intro|           no distinct mention. His chief opponents are, first, Eristics
65 Text |         had better now discuss the chief captain and leader of them.~


The Statesman
   Part
66 Intro|      sacrifices is assigned to the chief magistrate, as at Athens
67 Intro|      politician and his troop, the chief of Sophists, the prince
68 Intro|       maintaining the character of chief speaker, when we remember
69 Text |            pedestrian animals. The chief division of the latter was
70 Text |            this a reality, and the chief mark of difference between
71 Text |           Who is he?~STRANGER: The chief of Sophists and most accomplished
72 Text |        those who make family their chief aim, and to indicate their


The Symposium
   Part
73 Intro|     Alcestis and Achilles, are the chief themes of his discourse.
74 Text |          remembrance, and what the chief speakers said.~Phaedrus
75 Text |    beginning of the discourse; the chief thing which he remembered


Theaetetus
   Part
76 Intro|    appropriately introduced as the chief respondent. But he may be
77 Intro|          of the mind, which is our chief means of knowing it. It


Timaeus
   Part
78 Text |             To be sure I will: the chief theme of my yesterday’s
79 Text |            breed, we said that the chief magistrates, male and female,
80 Text |         that in all such cases the chief difficulty is to find a