Plato, Gorgias, section 473a

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[473a]

Polus
What a strange doctrine, Socrates, you are trying to maintain!

Socrates
Yes, and I will endeavor to make you too, my friend, maintain it with me: for I count you as a friend. Well now, these are the points on which we differ; just examine them yourself. I think I told you at an earlier stage that wrongdoing was worse than being wronged.

Polus
Certainly you did.

Socrates
And you thought that being wronged was worse.

Polus
Yes.

Socrates
And I said that wrongdoers were wretched, and I was refuted by you.

Polus
Upon my word, yes.

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

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Commentary references to this page (5):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 463d
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 472d
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 478c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 483e
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 510c
Cross-references to this page (1):
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1):
- LSJ, εἶπον