Plato · Soph.
Sophist
Σοφιστής
Traditionally dated to Plato’s late period.
An Eleatic Stranger and Theaetetus pursue a definition of the sophist through the method of division, and confront the problem of not-being.
This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1900)) side by side with English translations (H. N. Fowler, Benjamin Jowett) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 53 pages.
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- Theodorus Theo.
- Socrates Soc.
- Stranger Str.
- Theaetetus Theaet.
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- Fowler Greek & English · H. N. Fowler (Loeb, 1921)
- Jowett Greek & English · Benjamin Jowett (3rd ed., 1892)
Greek text & translations
Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900 (repr. 1967).
Translations: H. N. Fowler (Loeb, 1921); Benjamin Jowett (3rd ed., 1892).
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