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Traditionally dated to Plato’s early period.

Socrates recites a funeral oration for the Athenian war dead, framed as a parody of civic rhetoric.

This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1903)) side by side with an English translation (R. G. Bury) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 16 pages.

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Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903 (repr. 1968).
Translation: R. G. Bury (Loeb, 1929).
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