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Home   Browse and Comment Search   Buy Books and CD-ROMs Help   Meno By Plato Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Meno. Download: A 66k text-only version is available for download. Meno By Plato Written 380 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue MENO SOCRATES A SLAVE OF MENO ANYTUS Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way? Socrates. O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were famous among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their riding; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Larisa, which is the native city of your friend Aristippus. And this is Gorgias' doing; for when he came there, the flower of the Aleuadae, among them your admirer Aristippus, and the other chiefs of the Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he

The Internet Classics Archive | Meno by Plato Home Browse and Comment Search Buy Books and CD-ROMs Help Meno By Plato Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Meno . Download: A 66k text-only version is available for download . Meno By Plato Written 380 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue MENO SOCRATES A SLAVE OF MENO ANYTUS Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way? Socrates. O Meno, there was a time when the Thessal

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