Plato · Rep.

Republic

Πολιτεία

Traditionally dated to Plato’s middle period.

Socrates constructs the just city in speech to find justice in the soul — the central work of the corpus.

This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1902)) side by side with an English translation (Paul Shorey) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 10 books, 278 pages.

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• Shorey Greek & English · Paul Shorey (Loeb, 1930–35)

Books

• Book I 28 pages · 327a–354a
• Book II 27 pages · 357a–383a
• Book III 32 pages · 386a–417a
• Book IV 27 pages · 419a–445a
• Book V 32 pages · 449a–480a
• Book VI 28 pages · 484a–511a
• Book VII 28 pages · 514a–541a
• Book VIII 27 pages · 543a–569a
• Book IX 22 pages · 571a–592a
• Book X 27 pages · 595a–621a

Greek text & translations

Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902 (repr. 1968).
Translation: Paul Shorey (Loeb, 1930–35).
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