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PLATO

AND

THE OLDER ACADEMY

TRANSLATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S SANCTION

FROM THE GERMAN OF

DR. EDUARD ZELLER

BY

SARAH FRANCES ALLEYNE

AND

ALFRED GOODWIN, M. A.

Fellow and Lecturer of Balliol College, Oxford

LONDON

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1876

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THIS TRANSLATION of Dr. ZELLER'S 'Plato und die ältere Akademie'-Section 2, Part 2, Vol. II. of his Philosophie der Griechen '—has been made from the third and enlarged edition of that work, an earlier portion of which (Sokrates und die Sokratiker') has already appeared in English in the translation of Dr. REICHEL.

The text has been translated by Miss ALLEYNE, who desires to express her grateful acknowledgments to Dr. ZELLER for his courteous approval of the undertaking. For the notes, and for the revision of the whole, Mr. GOODWIN is responsible.

The references in the notes require some explanation: Simple figures, with or without supra or infra, indicate the pages and notes of the English translation. Vol. I. means the first (German) volume of the Philosophie der Griechen,' and Part I. the Erste Abtheilung of the second volume.

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Of the value of Dr. ZELLER's work in the original, it

is unnecessary to speak. Professor JOWETT has recently borne ample and honourable testimony to it in the preface to the second edition of his Plato. It is hoped that the present translation may be of use to some students of Plato who are perhaps less familiar with German than Greek.