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
Caput III: Letter 3
Section 315
Section 316
Section 317
Section 318
Section 319
Caput IV: Letter 4
Section 320
Section 321
Caput V: Letter 5
Section 321
Section 322
Caput VI: Letter 6
Section 322
Section 323
Caput VII: Letter 7
Section 323
Section 324
Section 325
Section 326
Section 327
Section 328
Section 329
Section 330
Section 331
Section 332
Section 333
Section 334
Section 335
Section 336
Section 337
Section 338
Section 339
Section 340
Section 341
Section 342
Section 343
Section 344
Section 345
Section 346
Section 347
Section 348
Section 349
Section 350
Section 351
Section 352
What counsel I have to offer, after this narrative of events, has been given already, and so let it suffice. But I deemed it necessary to explain the reasons why I undertook my second journey to Sicily because absurd and irrational stories are being told about it. If, therefore, the account I have now given appears to anyone more rational, and if anyone believes that it supplies sufficient excuses for what took place, then I shall regard that account as both reasonable and sufficient.