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LettersἘπιστολαί

Read it with the English beside the Greek More by Plato

Kind of writing: Epistolography
Dialect: Attic
Written: 5th–4th c. BC
Length: 19,483 words analysed
Vocabulary: 79% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPlatonis Opera, Tomus V: Tetralogia VIII. Burnet, John, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.
English translationPlato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9. Bury, R. G., translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).