Phaedrus

[fee-druh s, fed-ruh s]

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for phaedrus

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
A remark of Socrates in the Phaedrus should be well pondered by disciples of art for art's sake.
The Literature of Ecstasy|Albert Mordell
They remind us of the Timaeus, as well as of the Phaedrus and Philebus.
Timaeus|Plato
The work of Euhemerus was conceived in that spirit of vulgar rationalism, which is condemned by Plato in the Phaedrus.
The Roman Poets of the Republic|William Young Sellar

The myth in the Phaedrus is even greater than the myths which have been already described, but is of a different character.
Gorgias|Plato

British Dictionary definitions for phaedrus

Phaedrus

noun

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

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