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Plăto or Plăton , ōnis, = Πλάτων.
I. A celebrated Grecian philosopher, the disciple of Socrates, the instructor of Aristotle, and founder of the Academic philosophy, Cic. Leg. 3, 1, 1; id. Brut. 31, 121; id. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; id. Or. 3, 12: “Plato divinus auctor,” id. Opt. Gen. Or. 6; Sen. Ep. 6, 6, 13.—In Greek acc.: “doctum Platona,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 3; Petr. 2, 5.—Hence,
B. Plătōnĭcus , a, um, adj., = Πλατωνικός, of or belonging to Plato, Platonic: “sublimitas,” Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 5: “philosophus,” Gell. 15, 2, 1: “homo, speaking of Cicero,” Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 12, 46: “ideae,” Sen. Ep. 6, 6, 26.—Subst.: Plă-tōnĭci , ōrum, m., followers of the Platonic philosophy, Platonists, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2.—
II. An obscure Epicurean of Sardis, contemporary with Cicero, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.2.4
    • null, 12.46
    • Horace, Satires, 2.4.3
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.10.5
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 3.1
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.17
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.1
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.2.1
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 6.6
    • Cicero, De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 6
    • Cicero, Brutus, 31.121
    • Cicero, Orator, 3.12
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