The works of Plato (Vol. 1 of 6) A new and literal version chiefly from the text
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~200,000 words · 940 passages
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What it is about
The first volume of a Victorian six-volume edition of Plato's works, translated into English in a deliberately literal manner.
Context and history
It is worth knowing how Plato is cited, because none of these volumes will do it. The universal reference is Stephanus pagination — the '327a' at the opening of the Republic — which comes from the Greek edition of 1578 and which every serious edition prints in the margin in any language. With that number a citation can be checked in Greek, in English or in Catalan; with a volume and a page it cannot. The division into six volumes is the nineteenth-century editor's.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
------------------------------------------------------------------------This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. BOHN’S CLASSICAL LIBRARY. ------- THE WORKS OF PLATO, LITERALLY TRANSLATED. THE WORKS OF PLATO. -------------- A NEW AND LITERAL VERSION, CHIEFLY FROM THE TEXT OF STALLBAUM. VOL. I. CONTAINING THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES, CRITO, PHÆDO, GORGIAS, PROTAGORAS, PHÆDRUS, THEÆTETUS, EUTHYPHRON, AND LYSIS. BY HENRY CARY, M.A. WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1854. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. -------------- The only version of the entire works of Plato, which has appeared in the English language, is that published by Taylor; in which nine of the Dialogues previously translated by Floyer Sydenham are introduced. Taylor’s portion of the work is far from correct, and betrays an imperfect knowledge of Greek: that by Sydenham is much better, and evidently the work of a scholar, but in many instances, and those chiefly where difficulties present themselves, he obscures his author’s meaning by too great amplification. T
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