Charmides
   Part
 1 Ded  |         still more keenly by the writer himself, who must always
 2 PreS |         qualities of the ancient writer—his freedom, grace, simplicity,
 3 PreS |         Thirty Tyrants, whom the writer of the letters seems to
 4 PreS |      which they refer. No extant writer mentions them older than
 5 PreS |         be allowable in a modern writer. But we are not therefore
 6 PreS |          the mind of the ancient writer himself; and they are very


Cratylus
   Part
 7 Intro|       unsurpassed in any ancient writer, and even in advance of
 8 Intro|       the creations of the great writer who is the expression of
 9 Intro|          Pindar or a great prose writer like Thucydides are guilty
10 Intro|   remarked that whenever a great writer appears in the future he
11 Intro|  something more, which a skilful writer is easily able to supply
12 Intro|        freedom. No philosophical writer with the exception of Plato,
13 Intro|          to the knowledge of the writer and reader or of the speaker


The First Alcibiades
   Part
14 Pre  |        really great and original writer would have no object in
15 Pre  |  naturally attributed to a known writer whose works bore the same
16 Pre  |         either as a thinker or a writer, and though suggesting some
17 Intro|          supposing that the same writer, who has given so profound
18 Intro|          are not convincing; the writer of the dialogue, whoever


Gorgias
   Part
19 Intro|         that Plato is a dramatic writer, whose real opinions cannot
20 Intro|         not often hear the novel writer censured for attempting
21 Intro|         true office of a poet or writer of fiction is not merely
22 Intro|      French or German or Italian writer, have the better of him.
23 Intro|     region between them. A great writer knows how to strike both
24 Intro|   depends upon the genius of the writer or speaker, and the familiarity
25 Text |     beauty next, thirdly, as the writer of the song says, wealth


Laws
   Book
26 11   |     whatever he may license, the writer shall be allowed to produce,


Menexenus
   Part
27 Pre  |        really great and original writer would have no object in
28 Pre  |  naturally attributed to a known writer whose works bore the same
29 Pre  |         either as a thinker or a writer, and though suggesting some
30 Intro|          the Platonic works. The writer seems to have wished to


Parmenides
   Part
31 Intro|  dialogue, and the design of the writer is not expressly stated.


Phaedrus
   Part
32 Intro|       pain. An apocryphal sacred writer says that the power which
33 Intro|       reproach Lysias in being a writer; but there may be disgrace
34 Intro|          as the invention of the writer may suggest, or his fancy
35 Intro|          than in any other Greek writer, the local and transitory
36 Intro| philosopher, but also as a great writer. He cannot abide the tricks
37 Intro|      thousand years not a single writer of first-rate, or even of
38 Intro|        of the present century no writer of the first class will
39 Text |           possibly, from a prose writer. Why do I say so? Why, because
40 Text |        as you might say of a bad writer—his writing is good enough
41 Text |         and called him a ‘speech writer’ again and again. So that
42 Text |          of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?~PHAEDRUS:
43 Text |      whether Lysias or any other writer that ever was or will be,


Protagoras
   Part
44 Intro|         that Plato is a dramatic writer who throws his thoughts


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
45 Pre  |        aphron mainetai): and the writer seems to have been acquainted


The Seventh Letter
   Part
46 Text |        it is not the mind of the writer or speaker which is proved


The Statesman
   Part
47 Intro|       dialogues. The mind of the writer seems to be so overpowered
48 Intro| employing all the resources of a writer of fiction to give credibility
49 Intro|          of them the mind of the writer is greatly occupied about


The Symposium
   Part
50 Intro|        which were wiser than the writer of them meant, and could
51 Intro|          of comedy, and that the writer of tragedy ought to be a
52 Intro|         of tragedy ought to be a writer of comedy also. And first
53 Intro|    rendered in any words but the writer’s own. There are so many
54 Intro|           nor is there any Greek writer of mark who condones or
55 Intro|     imitator than of an original writer. The (so-called) Symposium


Theaetetus
   Part
56 Intro|          to Plato as to a modern writer. In this dialogue a great


Timaeus
   Part
57 Intro|       stress on Aristotle or the writer De Caelo having adopted
58 Intro|        conjectural medicine. The writer himself is constantly repeating
59 Intro|  Phaedrus and Philebus. When the writer says (Stob. Eclog.) that
60 Intro|        in the text of an ancient writer is a literary curiosity
61 Intro|         is no such legend in any writer previous to Plato; neither
62 Intro|       any citation of an earlier writer by a later one in which
63 Intro|  philological point of view. The writer is unable to explain particular
64 Intro|        it. In several places the writer has simplified the language