Plato · Men.
Meno
Μένων
Traditionally dated to Plato’s middle period.
Socrates and Meno ask whether virtue can be taught, and Socrates elicits a geometrical proof from an untutored slave.
This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1903)) side by side with English translations (W. R. M. Lamb, Benjamin Jowett) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 31 pages.
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- Meno Men.
- Socrates Soc.
- Meno's Boy Boy.
- Anytus An.
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- Lamb Greek & English · W. R. M. Lamb (Loeb, 1924)
- Jowett Greek & English · Benjamin Jowett (3rd ed., 1892)
Greek text & translations
Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903 (repr. 1968).
Translations: W. R. M. Lamb (Loeb, 1924); Benjamin Jowett (3rd ed., 1892).
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