=Transcriber’s Note= Bold surrounding =text=; italics surrounding _text_. There are two types of sidenote in this book. The sidenotes in _italics_ are the original page headers, and have been preserved as a guide to the conversation (they sometimes repeat from page to page). The sidenotes not in italics are the “marginal analyses” referred to on the title page, which were printed in the margins alongside the text. They have been joined together into complete sentences where necessary. All sidenotes have been placed at the nearest paragraph break. Note on changes made to the text is at the end. THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO _JOWETT_ VOL. II. THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH _WITH ANALYSES AND INTRODUCTIONS_ BY B. JOWETT, M.A. MASTER OF BALLIOL COLLEGE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DOCTOR IN THEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN _IN FIVE VOLUMES_ VOL. II THIRD EDITION _REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT, WITH MARGINAL ANALYSES AND AN INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PROPER NAMES_ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH NEW YORK: 91 AND 93, FIFTH AVENUE LONDON: HENRY FROWDE 1892 COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY MACMILLAN & CO. Printed at the De Vinne Press. CONTENTS. PAGE MENO 1 EUTHYPHRO 65 APOLOGY 95 CRITO 137 PHAEDO 157 GORGIAS 267 APPENDIX I:— LESSER HIPPIAS 433 ALCIBIADES I 457 MENEXENUS 511 APPENDIX II:— ALCIBIADES II 535 ERYXIAS 555 MENO. INTRODUCTION. [Sidenote: _Meno._] [Sidenote: ANALYSIS.] This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who =Steph.= 70 asks ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known 71 any one who did. ‘Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.’ Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his own notion, which is probably not very different from that of Gorgias? ‘O yes—nothing easier: there is the virtue 72 of a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.’