Letters
Plato (428–347 BC)
Plato's Letters in the Greek text edited by John Burnet, with R. G. Bury's English translation.
Caput I: Letter 1
Section 309
Section 310
Caput II: Letter 2
Section 310
Section 311
Section 312
Section 313
Section 314
Section 315
Many thanks for releasing the man in the stone-quarries; and my request with regard to his household and Hegesippus, the son of Ariston, is no hard matter; for in your letter you said that should anyone wrong him or them and you come to know of it you would not allow it. It is proper for me also to say what is true about Lysicleides; for of all those who have come to Athens from Sicily he is the only one who has not misrepresented your association with me; on the contrary, he always speaks nicely about past events and puts the best construction on them.