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[420β] αὕτη τῷ ἔχοντι ἀλλ᾽ ἐπείσακτος διὰ τῶν ὀμμάτων, διὰ ταῦτα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐσρεῖν ‘ἔσρος’ τό γε παλαιὸν ἐκαλεῖτο— τῷ γὰρ οὖ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὦ ἐχρώμεθα—νῦν δ᾽ ‘ἔρως’ κέκληται διὰ τὴν τοῦ ὦ ἀντὶ τοῦ οὖ μεταλλαγήν. ἀλλὰ τί ἔτι σὺ λέγεις ὅτι σκοπῶμεν;

Ἑρμογένης
‘δόξα’ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πῇ σοι φαίνεται;

Σωκράτης
‘δόξα’ δὴ ἤτοι τῇ διώξει ἐπωνόμασται, ἣν ἡ ψυχὴ διώκουσα τὸ εἰδέναι ὅπῃ ἔχει τὰ πράγματα πορεύεται, ἢ τῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ τόξου βολῇ. ἔοικε δὲ τούτῳ μᾶλλον. ἡ


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

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