previous next

[461b] by the Dog,1 Gorgias, no short sitting.

Polus
How is this, Socrates? Is that really your opinion of rhetoric, as you now express it? Or, think you, because Gorgias was ashamed not to admit your point that the rhetorician knows what is just and noble and good, and will himself teach these to anyone who comes to him without knowing them; and then from this admission


1 This favorite oath of Socrates was derived from Egypt, where the god Anubis was represented with a dog's head; cf. Plat. Gorg. 482b.

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

Creative Commons License
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.

load focus Notes (Gonzalez Lodge, 1891)
load focus Greek (1903)
hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Egypt (Egypt) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide References (10 total)
  • Commentary references to this page (6):
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 457c
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 463d
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 466c
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 466e
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 481b
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 527e
  • Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
    • Plato, Gorgias, 482b
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (3):
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: