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[417ε] βλάπτον τὸν ῥοῦν εἶναι λέγει: τὸ δὲ ‘βλάπτον’ αὖ σημαίνει βουλόμενον ἅπτειν: τὸ δὲ ‘ἅπτειν’ καὶ δεῖν ταὐτόν ἐστι, τοῦτο δὲ πανταχοῦ ψέγει. τὸ βουλόμενον οὖν ἅπτειν ῥοῦν ὀρθότατα μὲν ἂν εἴη ‘βουλαπτεροῦν,’ καλλωπισθὲν δὲ καλεῖσθαί μοι φαίνεται ‘βλαβερόν.’

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ποικίλα γέ σοι, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἐκβαίνει τὰ ὀνόματα. καὶ γὰρ νῦν μοι ἔδοξας ὥσπερ τοῦ τῆς Ἀθηνάας νόμου προαύλιον στομαυλῆσαι, τοῦτο τὸ ὄνομα προειπὼν τὸ


Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

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