Crossword-Solution: PHAEDO
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Dialogue by Plato | 1 answer |
| Plato work | 1 answer |
| PLATO, work of | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMAEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PHAEDO (5)
One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
Hence Plato says in the Phaedo: The philosopher is manifest in this, that he dissevers the soul from communion with the body.
Mem.; Phaedo); and a deep thinker like him, in his thirty or forty years of public teaching, could hardly have failed to touch on the nature of family relations, for which there is also some positive evidence in the Memorabilia (Mem.) The Socratic method is nominally retained; and every inference is either put into the mouth of the respondent or represented as the common discovery of him and Socrates.
His most remarkable imitation of Plato is the adaptation of the vision of Er, which is converted by Cicero into the ‘Somnium Scipionis’; he has ‘romanized’ the myth of the Republic, adding an argument for the immortality of the soul taken from the Phaedrus, and some other touches derived from the Phaedo and the Timaeus.
And this is required by dramatic propriety; for the investigation of nature was expressly renounced by Socrates in the Phaedo.
Quotes with PHAEDO (1)
THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL — AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…”SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1978).