Plato · Hp. Ma.

Hippias Major

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

Ἱππίας μείζων

Traditionally dated to Plato’s early period.

Socrates presses Hippias for a definition of the beautiful, demolishing one answer after another.

This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1903)) side by side with an English translation (H. N. Fowler) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 24 pages.

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Greek text & translations

Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903 (repr. 1968).
Translation: H. N. Fowler (Loeb, 1926).
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