https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/ 2026-04-11T12:50:31+00:00 https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/ https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:1&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER I (1.309a) Plato to Dionysius wishes well-doing. After I had spent so long a time with you and was trusted above all others in my administration of your government, while you were enjoying the benefits I was enduring the slanders, grievous as they were. For I knew that men would not believe that any of your more brutal acts were done with my consent, seeing that I have for my witnesses (1.309b) all those who take a part in your government, many of whom I have helped in their times of tr… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:2&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER II LETTER II (2.310b) Plato to Dionysius wishes well-doing. I hear from Archedemus that you think that not only I myself should keep quiet but my friends also from doing or saying anything bad about you ; and that “you except Dion only.” (2.310c) Now your saying this, that Dion is excepted, implies that I have no control over my friends ; for had I had this control over you and Dion, as well as the rest, more blessings would have come to us all and to the rest of the Greeks also, as I … text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:3&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER III (3.315a) “Plato to Dionysius wishes joy !” If I wrote thus, (3.315b) should I be hitting on the best mode of address ? Or rather, by writing, according to my custom, “Wishes well-doing,” this being my usual mode of address, in my letters to my friends ? You, indeed, — as was reported by the spectators then present — addressed even the God himself at Delphi in this same flattering phrase, and wrote, as they say, this verse — text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:4&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER IV (4.320a) Plato to Dion of Syracuse wishes well-doing. It has been plain, I believe, all along that I took a keen interest in the operations that have been carried out, and that I was most anxious to see them finally completed. In this I was mainly prompted (4.320b) by my jealous regard for what is noble ; for I esteem it just that those who are truly virtuous, and who act accordingly, should achieve the reputation they deserve. Now for the present (God willing) affairs are going well… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:5&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER V (5.321c) Plato to Perdiccas wishes well-doing. I counselled Euphraeus, in accordance with your message, to devote his time to the task of caring for your interests ; and I feel myself bound also to give you friendly, and what is called “sacred,” counsel (5.321d) both about the other matters you mention and as to how you ought now to make use of Euphraeus. For the man is useful for many things, the most important being that in which you yourself are deficient owing to your youth, and a… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:6&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER VI (6.322c) Plato to Hermeias and Erastus and Coriscus wishes well-doing. Some God, as it seems plain to me, is preparing for you good fortune in a gracious and bountiful way, if only you accept it with grace. For you dwell near together as neighbors in close association (6.322d) so that you can help one another in the things of greatest importance. For text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:8&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER VIII (8.352b) Plato to the relatives and companions of Dion wishes well-doing. The policy which would best serve to secure your real “well-doing” is that which I shall now endeavor as best I can to describe to you. And I hope that my advice will not only be salutary to you (though to you in special), but also (8.352c) to all the Syracusans, in the second place, and, in the third, to your enemies and your foes, unless any of them be a doer of impious deeds ; for such deeds are irremediab… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:9&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER IX (9.357d) Plato to Archytas of Tarentum wishes well-doing. Archippus and Philonides and their party have arrived, (9.357e) bringing us the letter which you gave them, and also reporting your news. Their business with the city they have completed without difficulty — for in truth it was not at all a hard task ; and they have given us a full account of you, telling us that you are somewhat distressed at not being able to get free from your public engagements. Now it is plain to almost e… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:10&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER X (10.358c) Plato to Aristodorus wishes well-doing. I hear that you now are and always have been one of Dion’s most intimate companions, since of all who pursue philosophy you exhibit the most philosophic disposition ; for steadfastness, trustiness, and sincerity — these I affirm to be the genuine philosophy, but as to all other forms of science and cleverness which tend in other directions, I shall, I believe, be giving them their right names if I dub them “parlor-tricks.” So farewell,… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:11&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER XI (11.358d) Plato to Laodamas wishes well-doing. I wrote to you before that in view of all that you say it is of great importance that you yourself should come to Athens. But since you say that this is impossible, the second best course would have been that I, if possible, or Socrates should go to you, as in fact you said in your letter. At present, however, Socrates (11.358e) is laid up with an attack of strangury ; while if I were to go there, it would be humiliating if I failed to s… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:12&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER XII (12.359c) Plato to Archytas of Tarentum wishes well-doing. We have been wonderfully pleased at receiving the treatises which have come from you and felt (12.359d) the utmost possible admiration for their author ; indeed we judged the man to be worthy of those ancient ancestors of his. For in truth these men are said to be Myrians ; and they were amongst those Trojans who emigrated in the reign of Laomedon — valiant men, as the traditional story declares. As to those treatises of min… text/html 2026-03-30T23:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:13&rev=1774913089&do=diff LETTER XIII (13.360a) Plato to Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, wishes well-doing. Let this greeting not only commence my letter but serve at the same time as a token that it is from me. Once when you were feasting the Locrian youths and were seated at a distance from me, you got up and came over to me and in a friendly spirit made some remark (13.360b) which I thought excellent, as also did my neighbour at the table, who was one of the beautiful youths. And he then said — “No doubt, Dionysius, … text/html 2026-03-30T15:33:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://platonismo.hyperlogos.info/doku.php?id=platao:cartas:jowett:start&rev=1774884826&do=diff JOWETT: LETTERS Veja também: Coletânea de excertos da obra completa de Platão, na tradução de Jowett, indexados por termos relevantes No prefácio da primeira edição, expressei uma opinião decidida em desacordo com a do Sr. Grote, de que as assim chamadas Epístolas de Platão eram espúrias. Seu amigo e editor, o Professor Bain, pensa que devo dar as razões pelas quais difiro de uma autoridade tão eminente. Reservando a discussão mais ampla da questão para outro lugar, defenderei brevemente minh…