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Platonism. The Epistles ( Greek: Ἐπιστολαί; Latin: Epistolae [1]) of Plato are a series of thirteen letters traditionally included in the Platonic corpus. With the exception of the Seventh Letter, they are generally considered to be forgeries; many scholars even reject the seventh.
Plato TO THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF DION. WELFARE. You write to me that I must consider your views the same as those of Dion, and you urge me to aid your cause so far as I can in word and deed. My answer is that, if you have the same opinion and desire as he had, I consent to aid your cause; but if not, I shall think more than once about it.
For not a single man of all who live beneath the heavens could ever become wise if these were his practices from his youth, since none will be found to possess a nature so admirably compounded; nor would he ever be likely to become temperate; and the same may truly be said of all other forms of virtue.
30 mar 2022 · The Epistles of Plato are a series of thirteen letters traditionally included in the Platonic corpus. Their authenticity has been the subject of some dispute, and scholarly consensus has shifted back and forth over time.
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Plato, Epistles, Letter 1, section 309a. Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position: letter: section: Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics. [ 309 α]
The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse.
