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His work on Plato led him to write his own version of a Socratic dialogue, in German, called Phaedon.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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In § 131 of the Phaedon is the passage here especially referred to; which was the basis also of lines 461-475 of Milton's Comus.
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Thus, he who rightly reads the "Phaedon" or "Phaedrus" of Plato smiles through all the depths of his brain, though no pronounced smile show on his face; and he who rightly reads the book of Cervantes, though the laughters plunge, as it were, in cascades from his lips, is earnest at heart, and full of sound and tender meditations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Barbara Zaragoza, meanwhile, had high hopes for her manuscript, "The Phaedon Detail," about a Naval psychiatrist who uncovers the truth behind the murder of five psychotic SEALs.
Where to Meet Others 2008
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Socrates pulchrorum Adolescentum causa frequens Gymnasium adibat, flagitiosque spectaculo pascebat oculos, quod et Philebus et Phaedon, Rivales, Charmides et [4696] reliqui Platonis Dialogi, satis superque testatum faciunt: quod vero Alcibiades de eodem Socrate loquatur, lubens conticesco, sed et abhorreo; tantum incitamentum praebet libidini.
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'Tis this which [6400] Plato labours for in his Phaedon, et 9. de rep.
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Socrates 'death, in Plato's Phaedon, but he wept: [3873] Austin shed tears when he read the destruction of Troy.
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Plato himself concludes his Phaedon with declaring, that his best arguments amount only to raise a probability; and
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Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of
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His philosophical works, "Jerusalem" and "Phaedon," translated into Hebrew by his disciples, were largely instrumental in giving prevalence to the idea that the Jewish people is a religious community rather than a nation.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919
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