Plato, Gorgias, section 503c

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[503c]

Callicles
Why, do you hear no mention of Themistocles and what a good man he was, and Cimon and Miltiades and the great Pericles, who has died recently,¹ and whom you have listened to yourself?

Socrates
Yes, Callicles, if that which you spoke of just now is true virtue—the satisfaction of one's own and other men's desires; but if that is not so, and the truth is—as we were compelled to admit in the subsequent discussion—that only those desires

1 429 B.C. We saw at Plat. Gorg. 473e that the supposed date of the discussion is 405 B.C., so that “recently” here is hardly accurate.

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 (3):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 522c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 523b
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 3.407A
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADJECTIVE CLAUSES (RELATIVE CLAUSES: 2488-2573）
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Plato, Gorgias, 473e
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, ἀκούω
- LSJ, νεωστί
- LSJ, ὕστερος