Volume 4

The works of Plato. A new and literal version, chiefly from the text of Stallbaum ... By Henry Cary [vol. II, Henry Davis, vols. III-VI, George Burges] / [Plato].

  • Plato
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1848-1854
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Credit: The works of Plato. A new and literal version, chiefly from the text of Stallbaum ... By Henry Cary [vol. II, Henry Davis, vols. III-VI, George Burges] / [Plato]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    letters which are without any vocal sound, clear or not clear,as far as each one,^® and the vowels also and those in the middle®^ in the same manner, until having comprehended their number, he gave to each one, and to all together, the name of an element. But perceiving that none of us could understand any of them by itself alone, without (learning) them all, he considered this bond between them as being one, and as making all these in a manner but one thing; and to them he applied the name of the grammar-art, calling it so as being one. Phil. These, taken by themselves and in relation to each other,^® Protarchus, I understand more clearly than what was said before. But there is still at present wanting, as before, the very same trifling part of the discourse. Soc. Is it not this, Philebus ? what have these matters to do with the subject ? Phil. Yes. This is the very thing which I and Protarchus are for a long while in search of. Soc. You are then for a long while, as you say, in search, when you have just now arrived at it. Phil. How so ? [24.] Soc. Was not the question originally between us relating to intellect or pleasure, which was the more eligible ? Phil. How not ? Soc. We admit, however, that each of them is one thing ? Phil. By all means. Soc. This then does the previous subject demand of us; how is each of them one and many ? and how is it that they are not at once infinite; but that each possesses somehow a certain number before it becomes infinite ? 87— 87 q’jiig jg perhaps the best way of rendering dcpOoyya Kai dcpwva. Sydenham has “ perfect or imperfect.” Ficinus, “ liquidas mutasque.” 88— 88 j confess I cannot understand julxpi evbg tKaarov: nor could Sy¬ denham, who has omitted them. Ficinus has literally, “ usque ad quod- libet unum.” By [xkaa, says Stalb., are meant those mentioned above, as “ not having a part of the voice, but of some kind of sound.” 90—90 j adopted the correction of Schleiermacher, avra ts ku'i Trpbg dXXrjXa, in lieu of avrd ye Trpbg dXXrjXa, found in the majority of MSS. Ficinus has “ videlicet ipsa invicem comparata.”
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