The Republic · ¶5370

Socrates, goes down to the Peiraeus to see the feast of Bendis, 1. 327; detained by Polemarchus and Glaucon, ibid.; converses with Cephalus, ib. 328–332; trembles before Thrasymachus, ib. 336 D; his irony, ib. 337 A; his poverty, ib. D; a sharper in argument, ib. 340 D; ignorant of what justice is, ib. 354 C; his powers of fascination, 2. 358 A; requested by Glaucon and Adeimantus to praise justice per se, ib. 367 B; cannot refuse to help justice, ib. 368 C; 4. 427 D; his oath ‘by the dog,’ 3. 399 E; 8. 567 E; 9. 592 A; hoped to have evaded discussing the subject of women and children, 5. 449, 472, 473 (cp. 6. 502 E); his love of truth, 5. 451 A; 6. 504; his power in argument, 6. 487 B; not unaccustomed to speak in parables, ib. E; his sign, ib. 496 C; his earnestness in behalf of philosophy, 7. 536 B; his reverence for Homer, 10. 595 C, 607 (cp. 3. 391 A).

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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