Plato, Phaedrus, section 271c

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[271c] or spoken with real art. But those whom you have heard, who write treatises on the art of speech nowadays, are deceivers and conceal the nature of the soul, though they know it very well. Until they write and speak by this method we cannot believe that they write by the rules of art.

Phaedrus
What is this method?

Socrates
It is not easy to tell the exact expressions to be used; but I will tell how one must write, if one is to do it, so far as possible, in a truly artistic way.

Phaedrus
Speak then.

Socrates
Since it is the function of speech

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 1.pos=2.2
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
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- Plutarch, Pericles, Plut. Per. 15
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- LSJ, ἐνδέχομαι
- LSJ, πρίν
- LSJ, τέχν-η
- LSJ, τεχν-ικός
- LSJ, ψυ_χα^γωγ-ία