The Republic · ¶5481
Youth, the corruption of, not to be attributed to the Sophists, but to public opinion, 6. 492 A; —youthful enthusiasm for metaphysics, 7. 539 B [cp. Phil. 15 E]; —youthful scepticism, not of long continuance, ib. D [cp. Soph. 234 E; Laws 10. 888 B].Read in context ›
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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