Plato, Gorgias, section 510b

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[510b]

Callicles
Do you note, Socrates, how ready I am to praise, when you say a good thing? This seems to me excellently spoken.

Socrates
Then see if this next statement of mine strikes you as a good one too. It seems to me that the closest possible friendship between man and man is that mentioned by the sages of old time as “like to like.” Do you not agree?

Callicles
I do.

Socrates
So where you have a savage, uneducated ruler as despot, if there were some one in the city far better than he, I suppose the despot would be afraid of him

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 (2):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 525d
- J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XXIV
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.pos=7.2
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (5):
- LSJ, ἄγριος
- LSJ, ἀπαίδ-ευτος
- LSJ, μάλα
- LSJ, ὅμοιος
- LSJ, τύραννος