Phaedrus
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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The opening
PHAEDRUS
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Phaedrus.
SCENE: Under a plane-tree, by the banks of the Ilissus.
SOCRATES: My dear Phaedrus, whence come you, and whither are you going?
PHAEDRUS: I come from Lysias the son of Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common friend Acumenus tells me that it is much more refreshing to walk in the open air than to be shut up in a cloister.
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- The words
- Benjamin Jowett's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
Project Gutenberg 1636
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- A preface, foreword or afterword
- Benjamin Jowett's explanatory proverb gloss inside Plato's speech