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Hipparchus

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

Ἵππαρχος

Socrates and a companion inquire into the nature of love of gain, framed by an account of the tyrant Hipparchus.

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. 8 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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