Excerpt from The Greater Hippias: A Dialogue of Plato Concerning the Beautifull
This Dialogue has the Addition of Greater to its Name, Hippias, in contra-distinction to Another of the Same Name, which is shorter. Concerning the Title of it, there is not any Dispute or Diversity: neither indeed can any be. For, after an Introduction of greater Length than usual, acquainting us fully with the Character of Hippias; at the same time artfully leading to the main Subject, and preparatory likewise to that high Doctrine, which our Philosopher aims to inculcate; the Subject of the Conversation is opened plainly in this Question, proposed by Socrates to Hippias, - "What is The Beautiful?" - And the Point is debated simply and closely, without any of those collateral Disquisitions, or Digressions by the Way, with the Variety of which our Author makes the greatest Part of his Writings so entertaining.
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