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Phaedrus

American  
[fee-druhs, fed-ruhs] / ˈfi drəs, ˈfɛd rəs /

noun

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


Phaedrus British  
/ ˈfiːdrəs /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

In The Phaedrus, Socrates warned that writing on wax tablets would make people forgetful.

From The Guardian May 3, 2018

A fifth traveler was sensed but unseen: Phaedrus, Pirsig’s alter ego, brilliant, uncompromising and obsessed with the search for truth.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2017

The Symposium, Plato Plato frames the Symposium as a series of speeches about love delivered by ancient Athenian luminaries — Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Socrates and others.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2016

They talked as they wandered idly on and Phaedrus asked, “Is not the place somewhere near here where Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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