Plato, Phaedrus, section 278e

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[278e] adding this phrase and taking that away, will you not properly address him as poet or writer of speeches or of laws?

Phaedrus
Certainly.

Socrates
Tell this then to your friend.

Phaedrus
But what will you do? For your friend ought not to be passed by.

Socrates
What friend?

Phaedrus
The fair Isocrates. What message will you give him? What shall we say that he is?

Socrates
Isocrates is young yet, Phaedrus;

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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Cross-references to this page (2):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.6.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Concord
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Lysias: Life
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, νομο-γράφος
- LSJ, παρέρχομαι
- LSJ, ποι-ητής
- LSJ, συγγρα^φ-εύς