Plato, Gorgias, section 475d

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

text : page
text : section

Table of Contents:

view as XML

[475d]

Socrates
Now it is surely admitted by the mass of mankind, as it was too by you in our talk a while ago, that doing wrong is fouler than suffering it.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
And now it has been found to be more evil.

Polus
So it seems.

Socrates
Then would you rather have the evil and foul when it is more than when it is less? Do not shrink from answering, Polus you will get no hurt by it: but submit yourself bravely to the argument, as to a doctor, and reply yes or no to my question.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

view as XML

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Commentary references to this page (3):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 456b
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 492d
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 497b
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.1
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Particle ἄν
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
- LSJ, βλάπτω
- LSJ, δέχομαι
- LSJ, παρέχω