My beloved Adeimantus, I cannot but lament that I should lose you so soon and so unjustly. How often have I loved to gaze upon your bearded face and welcomed the opportunity to be privy to that beauty, to which all men aspire? How often have we enjoyed each others company and instructive conversation? All the more sorrowful, then, is the task to which I now apply myself. Nicostratus has truly wronged every Athenian, not …
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…successful, yet less Platonic arguments. Bibliography *<Tab/>PLATO, The Trial and Death of Socrates, Four Dialogues (Unabridged), Jowett B (Trans), 1992, Dover Publications Inc, New York. *<Tab/>PLATO, Republic, Lee D (Trans), 2003, Penguin Classics, Penguin Books Ltd, London. *<Tab/>PLATO, Symposium, Waterfield R (Trans), 2000, Oxford World Classics, Oxford University Press. *<Tab/>DAVIES N, 1997, Europe, a History, Oxford University Press, London.