Plato, Phaedrus, section 258b

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Σωκράτης
οὐκοῦν ἐὰν μὲν οὗτος ἐμμένῃ, γεγηθὼς ἀπέρχεται ἐκ τοῦ θεάτρου ὁ ποιητής: ἐὰν δὲ ἐξαλειφθῇ καὶ ἄμοιρος γένηται λογογραφίας τε καὶ τοῦ ἄξιος εἶναι συγγράφειν, πενθεῖ αὐτός τε καὶ οἱ ἑταῖροι.

Φαῖδρος
καὶ μάλα.

Σωκράτης
δῆλόν γε ὅτι οὐχ ὡς ὑπερφρονοῦντες τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς τεθαυμακότες.

Φαῖδρος
πάνυ μὲν οὖν.

Σωκράτης
τί δέ; ὅταν ἱκανὸς γένηται ῥήτωρ ἢ βασιλεύς, ὥστε

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

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Commentary references to this page (3):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1139
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 648
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 1362
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (7):
- LSJ, ἀλείφω
- LSJ, ἐξα^λείφω
- LSJ, ἐμμένω
- LSJ, ἱκα^ν-ός
- LSJ, λογογρα^φ-ία
- LSJ, πενθ-έω
- LSJ, ὑπερφρον-έω

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