Phaedrus

[ fee-druhs, fed-ruhs ]

noun
  1. flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.

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How to use Phaedrus in a sentence

  • But Plato has not the same mastery over his instrument which he exhibits in the Phaedrus or Symposium.

    Timaeus | Plato
  • In four lines, Phaedrus has summed up all the forms of property.

    What is Property? | P. J. Proudhon
  • Crito will not believe that Socrates has not improved or perhaps invented the answers of Cleinias (compare Phaedrus).

    Euthydemus | Plato
  • Also here, as in the Ion and Phaedrus, Plato appears to acknowledge an unreasoning element in the higher nature of man.

    Meno | Plato
  • In the Phaedrus, as well as in the Meno, it is this former rather than a future life on which Plato is disposed to dwell.

    Meno | Plato

British Dictionary definitions for Phaedrus

Phaedrus

/ (ˈfiːdrəs) /


noun
  1. ?15 bc –?50 ad, Roman author of five books of Latin verse fables, based chiefly on Aesop

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