Excerpt from The Philebus of Plato: Translated, With Brief Explanatory Notes The celebrated but difficult Platonic treatise on Pleasure, or rather, on the Chief Good, has often been translated. A careful, though not always correct, version in two Vols. Quarto, encumbered, rather than illustrated, by diffuse notes, by Floyer Sydenham, was published in 1779 - 80, and again by Thos. Taylor in That by Mr. Poste (8vo., London, 1860) is more generally known; it is only a translation, and by no means a very literal one, with a brief but lucid analysis of the argument. Mr. Grote, in his Plato, and more recently Professor Jowett, have also translated (the former in part, the latter entirely) the Philebus, and both have commented at length on the philosophical and metaphysical bearings of the treatise. Both Mr. Poste and Dr. Badham have published the Greek text with Notes and Introductions and Stallbaum's edition is in the hands of most students of Plato. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.