Plato, Gorgias, section 469b

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[469b]

Socrates
Only he who unjustly put some one to death, my friend, and I called him pitiable as well: if he acted justly, then he is unenviable.

Polus
I suppose, at any rate, the man who is put to death unjustly is both pitiable and wretched.

Socrates
Less so than he who puts him to death, Polus, and less so than he who is put to death justly.

Polus
In what way can that be, Socrates ?

Socrates
In this, that to do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Polus
What, is this the greatest? Is not to suffer wrong a greater?

Socrates
By no means.

Polus
Then would you wish rather to suffer wrong than to do it?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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Commentary references to this page (4):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 473a
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 477a
- J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XX
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 1.335B
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- LSJ, ἀζήλωτος
- LSJ, πῶς