Plato, Phaedrus, section 277a

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[277a] who planted them, which are not fruitless, but yield seed from which there spring up in other minds other words capable of continuing the process for ever, and which make their possessor happy, to the farthest possible limit of human happiness.

Phaedrus
Yes, that is far nobler.

Socrates
And now, Phaedrus, since we have agreed about these matters, we can decide the others.

Phaedrus
What others?

Socrates
Those which brought us to this point

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE ARTICLE—ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES (QUESTIONS)
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
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- LSJ, ὄνειδ-ος
- LSJ, παρέχω