id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1673 Plato (spurious and doubtful works) Lesser Hippias .txt text/plain 9440 684 76 Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature genuineness of the dialogue will find in the Hippias a true Socratic The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Eudicus, Socrates, Hippias. SOCRATES: I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning HIPPIAS: Exactly so, Socrates; it is the character of Odysseus, as he is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And are they wily, and do they deceive by reason of their HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then a man who has not the power of speaking falsely and is HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: He and no one else is good at it? HIPPIAS: There you are wrong, Socrates; for in so far as Achilles speaks HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: And will our minds be better if they do wrong and make HIPPIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then the good man will voluntarily do wrong, and the bad man ./cache/1673.txt ./txt/1673.txt