Plato · Hp. Mi.
Hippias Minor
Ἱππίας ἐλάττων
Traditionally dated to Plato’s early period.
Socrates and the sophist Hippias debate whether the deliberate wrongdoer is better than the involuntary one.
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. 14 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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