Plato, Theaetetus, section 179d

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[179δ] αἴσθησιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην ταὐτὸν θέμενος. προσιτέον οὖν ἐγγυτέρω, ὡς ὁ ὑπὲρ Πρωταγόρου λόγος ἐπέταττε, καὶ σκεπτέον τὴν φερομένην ταύτην οὐσίαν διακρούοντα εἴτε ὑγιὲς εἴτε σαθρὸν φθέγγεται: μάχη δ᾽ οὖν περὶ αὐτῆς οὐ φαύλη οὐδ᾽ ὀλίγοις γέγονεν.

Θεόδωρος
πολλοῦ καὶ δεῖ φαύλη εἶναι, ἀλλὰ περὶ μὲν τὴν Ἰωνίαν καὶ ἐπιδίδωσι πάμπολυ. οἱ γὰρ τοῦ Ἡρακλείτου ἑταῖροι χορηγοῦσι τούτου τοῦ λόγου μάλα ἐρρωμένως.

Σωκράτης
τῷ τοι, ὦ φίλε Θεόδωρε, μᾶλλον σκεπτέον καὶ ἐξ

Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

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Commentary references to this page (2):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 463-512
- Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 21.190
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (10):
- LSJ, δια-κρούω
- LSJ, ἐπιδίδωμι
- LSJ, φαῦλος
- LSJ, φθέγγομαι
- LSJ, ὁ
- LSJ, περί
- LSJ, προσι^τέον
- LSJ, σαθρ-ός
- LSJ, ὑγι-ής
- LSJ, χορηγ-έω

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