1. Aristophanes, Clouds, 602 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 602. αἰγίδος ἡνίοχος πολιοῦχος ̓Αθάνα | |
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2. Plato, Euthydemus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 302c. he said, and no Athenian at all, if you have neither ancestral gods, nor shrines, nor anything else that denotes a gentleman! |
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3. Plato, Ion, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 536a. You, the rhapsode and actor, are the middle ring; the poet himself is the first; but it is the god who through the whole series draws the souls of men whithersoever he pleases, making the power of one depend on the other. And, just as from the magnet, there is a mighty chain of choric performers and masters and under-masters suspended by side-connections from the rings that hang down from the Muse. One poet is suspended from one Muse, another from another: |
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4. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 664c. but we shall also convince those who need convincing more forcibly than we could by any other assertion. Clin. We must assent to what you say. Ath. First, then, the right order of procedure will be for the Muses’ choir of children to come forward first to sing these things with the utmost vigor and before the whole city; second will come the choir of those under thirty, invoking Apollo Paian as witness of the truth of what is said, and praying him of grace to persuade the youth. |
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5. Plato, Philebus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 16c. Soc. One which is easy to point out, but very difficult to follow for through it all the inventions of art have been brought to light. See this is the road I mean. Pro. Go on what is it? Soc. A gift of gods to men, as I believe, was tossed down from some divine source through the agency of a Prometheus together with a gleaming fire; and the ancients, who were better than we and lived nearer the gods, handed down the tradition that all the things which are ever said to exist are sprung from one and many and have inherent in them the finite and the infinite. This being the way in which these things are arranged |
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6. Plato, Protagoras, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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7. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 149c. THEAET. Very likely. SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregt and who are not? THEAET. Certainly. SOC. And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drug |
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