{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg028.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg028.local001","title":"Μενέξενος","titleGreek":"Μενέξενος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plato","authorityName":"PLATO Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","editors":["John Burnet"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Platonis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1903","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operarecognovitb03platuoft/page/601/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Μενέξενος. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg028.local001","excerpt":"ΣΩ. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς ἢ πόθεν Μενέξενος; ΜΕΝ. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς, ὦ Σώκρατες, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου. ΣΩ. τί μάλιστα σοὶ πρὸς βουλευτήριον; ἢ δῆλα δὴ ὅτι παιδεύσεως καὶ φιλοσοφίας ἐπὶ τέλει ἡγῇ εἶναι, καὶ ὡς ἱκανῶς ἤδη ἔχων ἐπὶ τὰ μείζω ἐπινοεῖς τρέπεσθαι, καὶ ἄρχειν ἡμῶν, ὦ θαυμάσιε, ἐπιχειρεῖς τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τηλικοῦτος ὤν, ἵνα μὴ ἐκλίπῃ ὑμῶν ἡ οἰκία ἀεί τινα ἡμῶν ἐπιμελητὴν παρεχομένη; ΜΕΝ. ἐὰν σύ γε, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἐᾷς καὶ συμβουλεύῃς ἄρχειν, προθυμήσομαι· εἰ δὲ μή, οὔ. νῦν μέντοι ἀφικόμην πρὸς τὸ βουλευτήριον πυθόμενος ὅτι ἡ βουλὴ μέλλει αἱρεῖσθαι ὅστις ἐρεῖ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀποθανοῦσιν· ταφὰς γὰρ οἶσθʼ ὅτι μέλλουσι ποιεῖν. ΣΩ. πάνυ γε· ἀλλὰ τίνα εἵλοντο; ΜΕΝ. οὐδένα, ἀλλὰ ἀνεβάλοντο εἰς τὴν αὔριον. οἶμαι μέντοι Ἀρχῖνον ἢ Δίωνα αἱρεθήσεσθαι.","divisions":[{"label":"§ 234","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-234"},{"label":"§ 235","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-235"},{"label":"§ 236","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-236"},{"label":"§ 237","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-237"},{"label":"§ 238","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-238"},{"label":"§ 239","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-239"},{"label":"§ 240","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-240"},{"label":"§ 241","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-241"},{"label":"§ 242","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-242"},{"label":"§ 243","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-243"},{"label":"§ 244","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-244"},{"label":"§ 245","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-245"},{"label":"§ 246","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-246"},{"label":"§ 247","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-247"},{"label":"§ 248","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-248"},{"label":"§ 249","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/#tlg0059-tlg028-local001-249"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg028.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg028/local001.json.gz"}}