THE WORKS OF PLAT 0. A NEW AND LITERAL VERSION, CHIEFLY FROM THE TEXT OF STALLBAUM. VOL. II CONTAINING THE REPUBLIC, TIMÆUS, AND CRITIAS. BY HENRY DAVIS, M.A. AUTHOR OF "PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN LATIN COMPOSITION FOR THE USE OF KING'S COLLEGE" LONDON: BELL & DALDY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. Gp 82.567.62 HARVARD COLLEGE Cor 15.1929 From the library of LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET PREFACE. THE present volume comprises three connected dialogues, written no doubt towards the close of Plato's life (about 350 B. C.), subsequently to his travels in Italy, Sicily, and Egypt, and after his philosophic views had attained their full maturity and developement. Two of them, indeed, -the Republic and the Timæus,—are among the most important and most carefully elaborated in the entire series of the Platonic dialogues ;-the former being the summary of Plato's whole ethical system, and combining the results of most of the other dialogues, the latter comprising the full and almost sole developement of his speculations on the formation of the Universe and the organization of Man. The Critias can be considered only as an historical, or rather, mythical supplement to the Timæus;-and it appears to have been left unfinished at the author's death. The translation has been formed, with some few exceptions, on the text of Stallbaum, now justly reputed as the most correct in existence ;—and great pains have been taken throughout, not only to make it a literally correct exponent of the original, but also to transfuse into it that easy flow of language which constitutes the peculiar charm. of Plato's writing. In both these respects, therefore, it will be found strikingly to differ from the uncouth, obscure, unEnglish, and often extremely erroneous version of Taylor, -the only English dress in which this great philoso |
