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Browsing named entities in Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus.
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Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 275b
to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.PhaedrusSocrates, you easily make up stories of Egypt or any country you please.SocratesThey used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak
Dodona (Greece) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 275b
to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.PhaedrusSocrates, you easily make up stories of Egypt or any country you please.SocratesThey used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 274d
invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters. Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved
Naucratis (Egypt) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 274c
SocratesI can tell something I have heard of the ancients; but whether it is true, they only know. But if we ourselves should find it out, should we care any longer for human opinions?PhaedrusA ridiculous question! But tell me what you say you have heard.SocratesI heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 274c
SocratesI can tell something I have heard of the ancients; but whether it is true, they only know. But if we ourselves should find it out, should we care any longer for human opinions?PhaedrusA ridiculous question! But tell me what you say you have heard.SocratesI heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who
Elis (Greece) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 267b
by the power of their words, and new things old and old things the reverse, and who invented conciseness of speech and measureless length on all subjects? And once when Prodicus heard these inventions, he laughed, and said that he alone had discovered the art of proper speech, that discourses should be neither long nor short, but of reasonable length.PhaedrusO Prodicus! How clever!SocratesAnd shall we not mention Hippias, our friend from Elis? I think he would agree with him.PhaedrusOh yes.
Byzantium (Turkey) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 266e
PhaedrusYes.SocratesAnd the narrative must come second with the testimony after it, and third the proofs, and fourth the probabilities; and confirmation and further confirmation are mentioned, I believe, by the man from Byzantium, that most excellent artist in words.PhaedrusYou mean the worthy Theodorus?
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 261c
when they had nothing to do at Troy, and you have not heard of that by Palamedes?PhaedrusNor of Nestor's either, unless you are disguising Gorgias under the name of Nestor and Thrasymachus or Theodorus under that of Odysseus.SocratesPerhaps I am. However, never mind them; but tell me, what do the parties in a lawsuit do in court? Do they not contend in speech, or what shall we say they do?PhaedrusExactly that.SocratesAbout the just and the unjust?PhaedrusYes.SocratesThen he whose speaking is an art will make
SocratesThat is an absurd idea, young man, and you are greatly mistaken in your friend if you think he is so much afraid of noise. Perhaps, too, you think the man who abused him believed what he was saying.PhaedrusHe seemed to believe, Socrates; and you know yourself that the most influential and important men in our cities are ashamed to write speeches and leave writings behind them, through fear of being called sophists by posterity.SocratesYou seem to be unacquainted with the “sweet elbow,”This is a proverbial expression, similar in meaning to our “sour grapes.” The explanation given in the Mss., that the sweet elbow gets its name from the long bend, or elbow, in the Nile may be an addition by some commentator; at any rate, it hardly fits our passage. Ph
Dodona (Greece) (search for this): text Phaedrus, section 244b
and the priestesses at Dodona when they have been mad have conferred many splendid benefits upon Greece both in private and in public affairs, but few or none when they have been in their right minds; and if we should speak of the Sibyl and all the others who by prophetic inspiration have foretold many things to many persons and thereby made them fortunate afterwards, anyone can see that we should speak a long time. And it is worth while to adduce also the fact that those men of old who invented names thought that madness was neither shameful nor disgraceful;