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The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. II (Jowett, 1892)

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Socrates on trial, in prison and at his death, told in the Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Also here are the Meno and the Gorgias, plus several shorter dialogues in the appendices.

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TranslatorBenjamin Jowett
LanguageEnglish
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Why we can share it: Internet Archive copy scanned from the Royal College of Physicians, London library copy and marked with the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark. Translator Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) died 1893; printed at Oxford in 1892, before 1931, so public domain in the US.

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