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

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Socrates contrasts philosophy with a rival, more superficial idea of intellectual culture.

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 text & translations

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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