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
Caput VIII: Letter 8
Section 352
Section 353
Section 354
Section 355
Section 356
Section 357
Caput IX: Letter 9
Section 357
Section 358
Caput X: Letter 10
Section 358
Caput XI: Letter 11
Section 358
Section 359
Caput XII: Letter 12
Section 359
Plato to Archytas of Tarentum wishes well-doing. We have been wonderfully pleased at receiving the treatises which have come from you and felt the utmost possible admiration for their author; indeed we judged the man to be worthy of those ancient ancestors of his. For in truth these men are said to be Myrians; and they were amongst those Trojans who emigrated in the reign of Laomedon —valiant men, as the traditional story declares. As to those treatises of mine about which you wrote, they are not as yet completed, but I have sent them to you just in the state in which they happen to be; as concerns their preservation we are both in accord, so that there is no need to give directions. (Denied to be Plato’s.)