ΚΛΕΙΤΟΦΩΝ
Thomas Taylor (1804)
Plato · Thomas Taylor (1804)
Socrates: A certain person lately informed me that Clitopho, the son of Aristonymus, conversing with Lysias, blamed the pursuits of Socrates, but praised immoderately the conversation of Thrasymachus.
Clitopho: Whoever he was, Socrates, he has not accurately related to you my discourse with Lysias about you. For in some things I did not praise you, but in others I did. But since you evidently blame me, though you pretend to care nothing about this report, I will most willingly relate to you my conversation with Lysias, especially since we happen to be alone, that you may see I am not so ill disposed towards you as you might be induced to suppose. For now perhaps you have not rightly heard, and on that account are more exasperated with me than is proper. But if you will permit me to speak freely, I shall most cheerfully relate the affair to you.
Socrates: But it would be shameful, when you are willing to benefit me, that I should not suffer you. For it is evident that when I know in what respect I am better and worse, I shall pursue some things, and avoid others, to the utmost of my power.
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The Athenian who turned Socratic conversation into a written philosophy and founded the Academy.
Plato was born around 428 BCE into a wealthy and politically prominent Athenian family; through his mother Perictione the family traced kinship to the lawgiver Solon, and his relatives Critias and Charmides were among the oligarchs of the Thirty. A late tradition says his given name was Aristocles and that 'Plato' — from the word for 'broad' — was a nickname. He grew up during the long agony of the Peloponnesian War and came of age amid the violence and disillusion that followed Athens' defeat.
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