Plato, Euthyphro, section 2b

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[2b] for I don't accuse you of having brought one against anyone else.

Socrates
Certainly not.

Euthyphro
But someone else against you?

Socrates
Quite so.

Euthyphro
Who is he?

Socrates
I don't know the man very well myself, Euthyphro, for he seems to be a young and unknown person. His name, however, is Meletus, I believe. And he is of the deme of Pitthus, if you remember any Pitthian Meletus, with long hair and only a little beard, but with a hooked nose.

Euthyphro
I don't remember him, Socrates. But

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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Commentary references to this page (4):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 911-1085
- J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XI
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 5.474D
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 6.490A
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- LSJ, δῆμος
- LSJ, ἔχω
- LSJ, ἐπίγρυ_πος
- LSJ, εὐγέν-ειος
- LSJ, γράφω
- LSJ, γρα^φ-ή
- LSJ, καταγιγνώσκω
- LSJ, οἷος
- LSJ, τετα^νόθριξ