112. +Transliteration: hautê di' hautên. Pater's translation: "in and
by itself." Plato, Republic 367e.
113. +Transliteration: to ta opheilomena apodidonai. Pater's
translation: "to restore what one owes." Plato, Republic 331e and
332a.
118. +Transliteration: ho Lakôn. Liddell and Scott definition: "The
Lacedaemonian [i.e., Spartan]."
118. +Transliteration: tou legein etumos technê. Pater's translation:
"a genuine art of speech." Plato, Phaedrus 260e.
118. +Transliteration: Logôn ara technên, ho tên alêtheian mê eidôs,
doxas te tethêreukôs, geloion tina kai atexnon parexetai. E-text
editor's translation: "In the art of speaking, therefore, the person
who does not know the truth, who has sought out only the opinions of
others, will come by nothing better than a kind of unskilled jesting."
Plato, Phaedrus 262c.
118. +Transliteration: texnê atexnos. Pater's translation: "[a]
bastard art of mere words." Plato, Phaedrus 260e.
119. +Transliteration: Peri brachylogias, kai eleeinologias, kai
deinôseôs. E-text editor's translation: "Concerning brevity, and
speech that moves to pity, and exaggeration. . ." Plato, Phaedrus
272a.
119. +Transliteration: ta pro tragôdias. E-text editor's translation:
"the things before tragedy." Plato, Phaedrus 269a.
119. +Transliteration: ta pro tragôdias, all' ou tragika. E-text
editor's translation: "the things before tragedy, but not tragedy
itself." Plato, Phaedrus 269a.
119. +Transliteration: anankê logographikê. E-text editor's
translation: "[the manner] required [in] prose-writing or speech-
making." Plato, Phaedrus 264b contains similar language.
119. +Transliteration: pros doxan. E-text editor's translation: "in
accordance with received opinion." Plato, Republic 362a, among other
passages.
121. +Transliteration: psychagôgia. Pater's translation: "the control
of minds." The verb agô means "lead or drive." Plato, Phaedrus 261a
and 271c.
121. +Transliteration: tribê monon, kai empeiria alla technê. Pater's
translation: "[not] by mere empiric routine, but by the power of
veritable fine art." Plato, Phaedrus 270b.
121. +Transliteration: chalepa ta kala. E-text editor's translation:
"fine things are hard [to obtain]." Plato, Republic 435c.
122. +Transliteration: kala epitêdeumata. Pater's translation:
"beautiful employments." Plato, Symposium 211c.
122. +Transliteration: monoeides. E-text editor's translation: "of one
kind, simple." Plato, Symposium 211a and 211e.
122. +Transliteration: hô dei. E-text editor's translation: "with what
is necessary." Plato, Symposium 212a.
122. +Transliteration: ho nous. Pater's translation: "imaginative
reason." The word nous or noos generally means "mind." Plato,
Symposium 210-212.
123. +The passage Pater cites--Diotima's speech about love--runs from
210-212a of the Symposium.
CHAPTER 6: THE GENIUS OF PLATO
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