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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DICTIONARIES AND INDICES .—Mitchell'S See also:

Index to See also:Plato; F. See also:Ast, See also:Lexicon platonicum; E. See also:Abbott, Index to Plato°(See also:English, 1875). ON THE See also:MSS.—See especially See also:Bekker's edition; See also:Gaisford'sLeatimes platonicae (182o); M. Schanz's edition with See also:critical notes; See also:Jewett and See also:Campbell's See also:Republic, vol. ii.; J. See also:Burnett's See also:Oxford edition. The important Codex Clarkianus in the Bodleian library has been reproduced in facsimile, with a See also:preface by T. W. See also:Allen (1898-1899). (L. C.) PLATO„Athenian comic poet of the Old See also:Comedy, flourished between 428-389 B.C. According to Suidas, he was the author of See also:thirty comedies.

Some of these See also:

deal with See also:political matters. Such were the Cleophon and Hyperbolus, directed against the well-known demagogues, and the Symmachia, referring to a See also:coalition formed by See also:Nicias, See also:Alcibiades and Phaeaxto get rid of Hyperbolus by See also:ostracism. His later plays treat the vices and failings of mankind in the spirit of See also:burlesque and See also:parody. Such were the Sophistae, akin to the Clouds of See also:Aristophanes; the Cinesias, an attack on a contemporary poet; the Festivals, satirizing the useless See also:expenditure and extravagance See also:common on such occasions; mythological subjects-4donis, See also:Europe, lo, the Ants (on the Aeginetan See also:legend of the See also:change of ants into men); Phaon, the See also:story of the Lesbian ferryman, who was presented by See also:Aphrodite with a marvellous ointment, the use of which made See also:women madly in love with him. See T. See also:Kock, Comicorum atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o) ; A. See also:Meineke, Poetarum tomicorum graecorumfragmenta (1855).

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