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Alcibiades I

Dubious Authorship traditionally doubted — transmitted with Plato’s works but widely judged not to be by Plato.

Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ

Socrates urges the young Alcibiades toward self-knowledge as the basis of political ambition.

This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1901)) side by side with an English translation (W. R. M. Lamb) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 33 pages.

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Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901 (repr. 1967).
Translation: W. R. M. Lamb (Loeb, 1927).
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