Plato · Clit.
Clitophon
Dubious Authorship traditionally doubted — transmitted with Plato’s works but widely judged not to be by Plato.
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Clitophon reproaches Socrates for exhorting others to virtue without teaching what virtue is.
This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1902)) side by side with an English translation (R. G. Bury) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 5 pages.
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- Socrates Soc.
- Cleitophon Cleit.
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Greek text & translations
Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902 (repr. 1968).
Translation: R. G. Bury (Loeb, 1929).
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