Plato, Epistles, ed. John Burnet, 12

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[359] 359c
Πλάτων Ἀρχύτᾳ Ταραντίνῳ εὖ πράττειν.
τὰ μὲν παρὰ σοῦ ἐλθόνθʼ ὑπομνήματα θαυμαστῶς ὡς 359d ἅσμενοί τε ἐλάβομεν καὶ τοῦ γράψαντος αὐτὰ ἠγάσθημεν ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα, καὶ ἔδοξεν ἡμῖν εἶναι ὁ ἀνὴρ ἄξιος ἐκείνων τῶν πάλαι προγόνων· λέγονται γὰρ δὴ οἱ ἄνδρες οὗτοι Μύριοι εἶναι—οὗτοι δʼ ἦσαν τῶν ἐπὶ Λαομέδοντος ἐξαναστάντων Τρώων—ἄνδρες ἀγαθοί, ὡς ὁ παραδεδομένος μῦθος δηλοῖ. τὰ δὲ παρʼ ἐμοὶ ὑπομνήματα, περὶ ὧν ἐπέστειλας, ἱκανῶς μὲν οὔπω ἔχει, ὡς δέ ποτε τυγχάνει ἔχοντα, ἀπέσταλκά 359e σοι· περὶ δὲ τῆς φυλακῆς ἀμφότεροι συμφωνοῦμεν, ὥστʼ οὐδὲν δεῖ παρακελεύεσθαι.
ʽἁ̓ντιλέγεται ὡς οὐ Πλάτωνος.ʼ

Epistles. Plato. ed. John Burnet. Oxford. 1915.

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Ἐπιστολαί (Greek) (Platonis Opera, Tomus V: Tetralogia VIII. Burnet, John, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.)

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Letters Perseus (Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9. Bury, R. G., translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 12 focus

[359] 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 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 ¹—valiant men, as the traditional story declares. As to those treatises of mine about which you wrote, they are not as yet completed, but I have sent them to you just in the state in which they happen to be; as concerns their 359e preservation ² we are both in accord, so that there is no need to give directions. (Denied to be Plato’s.)

Plato Epistles 12

ed. John Burnet

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