Plato, Sophist, section 262c

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[262c] such a succession of words does not yet make discourse; for in neither case do the words uttered indicate action or inaction or existence of anything that exists or does not exist, until the verbs are mingled with the nouns; then the words fit, and their first combination is a sentence, about the first and shortest form of discourse.

Theaetetus
What do you mean by that?

Stranger
When one says “a man learns,” you agree that this is the least and first of sentences, do you not?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 863-910
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, GREEK SYNTAX
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the verbal predicate
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (6):
- LSJ, ἀπραξία
- LSJ, φων-έω
- LSJ, κεράνν-υ_μι
- LSJ, λόγος
- LSJ, συμπλοκή
- LSJ, συνέχεια

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