Plato, Gorgias, section 462e

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[462e]

Socrates
Then I reply, a certain habitude.

Polus
Of what? Tell me.

Socrates
Then I reply, of production of gratification and pleasure, Polus.

Polus
So cookery and rhetoric are the same thing?

Socrates
Not at all, only parts of the same practice.

Polus
What practice do you mean?

Socrates
I fear it may be too rude to tell the truth; for I shrink from saying it on Gorgias' account, lest he suppose I am making satirical fun of his own profession. Yet indeed I do not know

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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Commentary references to this page (3):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1179
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 486c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 509a
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
- Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Overview of Greek Syntax, Verbs: Mood
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Moods
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- LSJ, μή
- LSJ, ὀκν-έω