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].

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1848-1854
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    Soc. So, likewise, the thing made, and the thing produced, we shall find, as just now said, to differ in nothing but the name; or how ? Prot. Just so. Soc. According to nature, does not the thing making ever lead the way ? and the thing made follow it into being ? Prot. Certainly. [46.] Soc. Cause then, and that which is the slave of cause for production, is another thing, and not the same. Prot. How not ? Soc. Have not the things which are produced, and the things out of which they are all produced, exhibited to us the three genera ? Prot. Clearly. Soc. The fourth then, which is the artificer of all these, let us call the cause; as it has been sufficiently shown to be different from those. Prot. Let us call it. Soc. The four sorts having been now defined, it is well, for the sake of remembering each one, to enumerate them in order. [47.] Prot. How not ? Soc. The first then I call limitless; the second, limit; the third, what is mixed and generated from these ; and in saying that the cause of this mixture and this production is the fourth, should I do aught amiss ? Prot. How so ? Soc. Well now, what is the reasoning after this? and with what design have we come to this? Was it not this? We were inquiring whether the second prize was due to Pleasure or Intellect. Was it not so ? Prot. It was so. Soc. Since then we have thus divided these things, may we not now better form a finished judgment about the first and the second, respecting which we disputed at first. Prot. Perhaps so. Soc. Come now, we laid down, as the conqueror, the com¬ bined life of Pleasure and Intellect. Was it not so? 38—38 Ficinushas “ Omnium autem istorum opificem quartum ponimus causamque vocamus,” as if he had found in his MS. TiOefxev reraprov Kai Xiyofiep air'iav: where Xsyofitv is found likewise in five MSS.
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