...only,' but the Plato who came to scoff remained to pray at the shrine of rhetoric, and we witness a ' gradual prevalence over Plato's style of the rhetorical...the earlier periods he had alternately ridiculed and coquetted and played with.' •AJP VI 487. The frequency of ¿i}Aop ¿c in the Sophistes struck me...

...which the mere collection of instances has to be checked. Most of the features which we have learned to identify with Plato's later manner are already present in the Phaedrus — the balanced cadences — nal aGxoXiot? vTreprtpov TrpayfJia TrotrfGeGdat TO Grfv re xai slvGtov dtarptfirfv dxovaau —...

...only," but the Plato who came to scoff remained to pray at the shrine of rhetoric, and we witness a ' gradual prevalence over Plato's style of the rhetorical...the earlier periods he had alternately ridiculed and coquetted and played with.' • AJP VI 487. The frequency of eijW is in the Sophistes struck me years...