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until someone after the publication of the Phaedo which was easier than to modify the original expression by an interlineation so as vaguely to refer to that dialogue? The whole method of stylometry is not to be overthrown by such as argument! Apart from that there are other indications in this book of its antidating the Phaedo. But I shall not stop to adduce them because they not indubitable like this. After the doctrine of imortality the subject or reward and punishments in this life and the next is discussed; and the whole ends with on of Plato's great dreams this one about choosing one's own life the rive of Lethe, etc.
The Symposium completes the quateruion of lessons which Plato deemed indespensibel to the teaching of his school by taking up the tremendous subject of Love. It was written probably 355 BC. A succession of speeches are made about Love. Phaedo shows to what lofty acts it inspires men and women. Pausanias discourses of the higher.