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6663. PHILOSOPHY, Socratic.—

Of Socrates
we have nothing genuine but in the
Memorabilia of Xenophon; for Plato makes him
one of his collocutors, merely to cover his own
whimsies under the mantle of his name; a liberty
of which we are told Socrates himself complained.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vii, 139. Ford ed., x, 144.
(M. 1819)