The Gorgias of Plato Chiefly According to Stallbaum's Text, with Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Gorgias of Plato, Chiefly According to Stallbaum's Text: With Notes From these editions, above all from the last, I have derived great assistance, which is often acknowledged and often not. In a work likexthis, it would be plainly impossible to trace everything up to its source, but nothing has been adopted without examination; much also is original, but I fear that 'if- any one should pass the severe Judgment upon the edition, that 'mostof what is good in it is borrowed, and of what is faulty'is' origin al, he would not be very far out Of the way. Besides these editions, I have consulted several of those works relating to Plato, to which an editor of his dialogues Would naturally think - 'of turning for aid; Of this description are Ast's Lexicon Platonicum, (the three first vols.) which is of no great use after all, Ast's, Socher's, and the first vol. Of C. F. Hermann's Intro duction to Plato, Schleiermacher's and Cousin's trans lations, and Dobson's translation of Schleiermacher's Prefaces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.