Plato - Letter XII

PLATO
COMPLETE WORKS

I.	Euthyphro v.1, 2a-16a. * Apology v.1, 17a-42a. Crito v.1, 43a-54e. Phaedo v.1, 57a-118a.	Euthydemus v.1, 271a-307c. Protagoras v.1, 309a-362a. Gorgias v.1, 447a-527e. Meno v.2, 70a-100b.	VI.

II.	Cratylus v.1, 383a-440e. Theaetetus v.1, 142a-210d. Sophist v.1, 216a-268b. Statesman v.2, 257a-311c.	† Greater Hippias v.3, 281a-304e. Lesser Hippias v.1, 363a-376c. Ion v.1, 530a-542b. Menexenus v.2, 234a-249e.	VII.

III.	Parmenides v.3, 126a-166c. Philebus v.2, 11a-67b. Symposium v.3, 172a-223d. Phaedrus v.3, 227a-279c.	† Clitophon v.3, 406a-410e. Republic v.2, 327a-621d. Timaeus v.3, 17a-92c. Critias v.3, 106a-121c.	VIII.

IV.	Alcibiades I † v.2, 103a-135e. Alcibiades II ‡ v.2, 138a-151c. Hipparchus ‡ v.2, 225a-232c. Rival Lovers ‡ v.1, 132a-139a.	‡ Minos v.2, 313a-321d. Laws v.2, 624a-969d. ‡ Epinomis v.2, 973a-992e.	IX.

V.	Theages ‡ v.1, 121a-131a. Charmides v.2, 153a-176d. Laches v.2, 178a-201c. Lysis v.2, 203a-223b.

Writings not in Thrasyllus’ Tetralogies

Axiochus, ‡
v.3, 364a-372a.
On Justice, ‡
v.3, 372a-375d.
On Virtue, ‡
v.3, 376a-379d.
Demodocus, ‡
v.3, 380a-386b.

‡ Sisyphus,
v.3, 387b-391d.
‡ Eryxias,
v.3, 392a-406a.
‡ Definitions,
v.3, 411a-416a.
‡ Halcyon,
* See endnotes.

Epistles / Letters
Benjamin Jowett’s Translations
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII.

Glenn R. Morrow’s Translations
I, IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII.

John Harward’s Translations
Letter VII.

Epigrams*
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII.
Translated by J.M.Edmonds, revised by John M. Cooper.

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* Indices shown beneath dialogue titles are Stephanus Pagination Numbers, first used in Henricus Stephanus’ three volume edition of Plato’s works in 1578. These indices are the standard reference system for citing Plato’s works. The Epigrams and “Halcyon” are not indexed as they were not included in the aforementioned edition.

† There is no consensus among scholars as to whether Plato is the author of this work.

‡ It is generally agreed by scholars that Plato is not the author of this work.

XII

Plato to Archytas of Tarentum¹, welfare

I am overjoyed at receiving the treatises that have come from you and am filled with admiration for their author, who seemed to me a man worthy of his ancient ancestors. These ancestors are said to have been Myrians, and to have been among the Trojans who emigrated under Laomedon. Good men they were, according to the accepted legend. As to the writings of mine about which you wrote, they are not yet completed, but I am sending them to you as they are. We are not agreed that they ought to be guarded, so I need not admonish you on that point.

(Some have contended that this letter is not Plato's.²)

¹ See note to 357d.

² This notation is found in our best manuscripts, and may go back to Thrasyllus.

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