Plato, Cratylus, section 395d

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[395d] because he saw only the near at hand and the immediate— that is to say, πέλας (near)—in his eagerness to win by all means the hand of Hippodameia. And any one would think the name of Tantalus was given rightly and in accordance with nature, if the stories about him are true.

Hermogenes
What are the stories?

Socrates
The many terrible misfortunes that happened to him both in his life, the last of which was the utter overthrow of his country, and in Hades, after his death,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 893
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.4.2
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Apollodorus, Epitome, Apollod. Epit. E.2
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (6):
- LSJ, ἀνα-τρέπω
- LSJ, δυστυ?́χ-ημα
- LSJ, ποῖος
- LSJ, προθυ_μ-έομαι
- LSJ, τις
- LSJ, τρέπω