The Works of Plato Abridg'd (Volume 2); With an Account of His Life Together with a Translation of His Choicest Dialogues Illustrated with Notes baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1701. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... defign'd likewise against Plato, yis to this purpose. Cleombrotus of Ambracia having paid his last Compliment to the Sun, threw himself headlong from the top os a Tower into Hell: Not that he had done any thing worthy os Death j but only had read Plato x Treatise of the Immortality os the Soul. But, after all, it redounds to the Glory of Socrates and Plato., and the Doctrine of the Immortar lity of the oul; that none but such Enemies as these oppose it. Phedon: Or, A 'Dialogue of the Immortality of the SoaU Echecrates and Phedon. Echec. "Tyhedon, were you by when Socrates drank JL the Pbyson, or did any Body give you an Account how he behav'd in that juncture? Phed. I was present. Echec. What were his last Words then, and how the HJti dy'd he ? You'll oblige me much with the relation: of For the Phliqjians have but little Correspondence DEGREES DEGREESOt with the Athenians, and 'tis a great 'while since we p DEGREESlopoa-] had any Stranger from Athens to acquaint Us how nesus. things went. We only heard that he dy'd after drinking the Poyson; but could not understand any Particulars relating to his Death. Phed. What! Did not you hear how he was arraign'd? ..., Echec. Yes truly DEGREES some Body told us that; and we thought it strange that his Sentence was so long in being put in execution after his Trial. Phed. * That happen'd only by chance. For the * Thedons Discourse implies that the time of the Ships departure was uncertain: 'Twas either anticipated or retarded, as the Condition of the Ship and other Occurrences requir'd. This uncertainty occasions the Difficulty of finding the true Date of Socrates's Death. / m f f day day before his Trial, the Stern of the Sacred Ship which the Athenians fend every Year to Deles, was crown'd for the Voyage. Echec. What is tha