Ancient Classics for English Readers

EDITED BY THE

REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.

PLATO

The Volumes published of this Series contain

HOMER: THE ILIAD, BY THE EDITOR.
HOMER: THE ODYSSEY, BY THE SAME.
HERODOTUS, BY GEORGE C. SWAYNE, M.A.
CÆSAR, BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

VIRGIL, BY THE EDITOR.

HORACE, BY THEODORE MARTIN.

ÆSCHYLUS, by Reginald S. COPLESTON, M.A.

XENOPHON, BY SIR ALEX. GRANT, BART., LL.D. CICERO, BY THE EDITOR.

SOPHOCLES, BY CLIFTON W. COLLINS, M.A.

PLINY, BY A. CHURCH, M.A., AND

BRODRIBB, M.A.

W.

J.

EURIPIDES, BY WILLIAM BODHAM DONNE.
JUVENAL, BY EDWARD WALFORD, M.A.
ARISTOPHANES, BY THE EDITOR.

HESIOD & THEOGNIS, BY James Davies, M.A.
PLAUTUS AND TERENCE, BY THE EDITOR.
TACITUS, BY WILLIAM BODHAM DONNE.

LUCIAN, BY THE EDITOR.

The following are in preparation :

THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

GALEN AND HIPPOCRATES.

A Volume will be published Quarterly, price 2s. 6d.

PLATO

BY

CLIFTON W. COLLINS, M.A.

H.M. INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

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THE Dialogues of Plato have been grouped together in this little volume as their subject or argument seemed to suit the requirements of the Chapter in which they will be found, without regard to chronological order. Nor has the vexed question of the "Platonic Canon," or what are or are not the genuine works of Plato, been entered upon in these pages. All the Dialogues attributed to him in Stallbaum's edition are accepted here, and discussed with more or less brevity, as their interest for the general reader seemed to require.

The writer desires to express his deep sense of his obligations to Professor Jowett for permission to use his valuable translation of Plato, from which most of the quotations found in the text (including the extracts marked "J.") have been made. Those

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