84. +Transliteration: ho mê oida ti esti, pôs an hopoion ge ti eideiên.
Pater's translation: "That, about which I don't know what it is, how
should I know what sort of a thing it is." Plato, Meno 71b.
84. +Transliteration: poiotêtes. Pater's translation: "qualities."
84. +Transliteration: kath' holou. Pater's translation: "universal, or
catholic, definitions;" the phrase might be translated, "in accordance
with the whole."
86. +Transliteration: Tois anthrôpois, mê hosion einai, autous heatous
eupoiein, all' allon dei menein euergetên. Pater's translation: "why
is it forbidden to seize such an advantage as death must be by self-
destruction." Plato, Phaedo 62a.
87. +Transliteration: to pharmakon epien en tô desmôtêriô. Pater's
translation: "he consumed the poison in the prison." Plato, Phaedo
57a.
90. +Transliteration: ton hêttô logon kreittô poiein. Pater's
translation: "to make the worse appear the better reason." Plato,
Apology 23d.
93. +Transliteration: hoi elthonta me dei tethnanai. Pater's
translation: "whither he must go, to die." The pronoun should be first
person--"whither I must go." Plato, Apology 39e.
95. +Transliteration: poiêmata. Liddell and Scott definition: "anything
made or done . . . a poetical work."
95. +Transliteration: pseudê en pharmakou eidei. Pater's translation:
"medicinable fictions." Plato, Republic 389b contains a similar
phrase.
95. +Transliteration: Moi gegonen aneu apodeixeôs, meta eikotos tinos,
kai euprepeias. Pater's translation: "came to me apart from
demonstration, with a sort of natural likelihood and fitness." Plato,
Phaedo 92c.
95. +Transliteration: ischuron ti estin. Pater's translation: "is
something sturdy and strong." Plato, Phaedo 95c.
98. +Transliteration: Narthêkophoroi men polloi, bakchoi de te pauroi.
Pater's translation: "Many are called, but few chosen." Plato, Phaedo,
69c.
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