Phaedrus

[ fee-druhs, fed-ruhs ]

noun

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

Phaedrus

/ ˈfiːdrəs /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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In four lines, Phaedrus has summed up all the forms of property.

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Crito will not believe that Socrates has not improved or perhaps invented the answers of Cleinias (compare Phaedrus).

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

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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.

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