title: Plato: Protagoras (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
author:  Plato 
description: This book provides an English commentary on the Greek text of this important work, giving full assistance with literary, linguistic and philosophical questions. The last such edition of the Protagoras was first published over a century ago.
zlib_text: ERYXIAS
  1
  ERYXIAS
  by a Platonic Imitator
  Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  
  ERYXIAS
  2
  INTRODUCTION.
  Much cannot be said in praise of the style or conception of the Eryxias.
  It is frequently obscure; like the exercise of a student, it is full of small
  imitations of Plato:--Phaeax returning from an expedition to Sicily
  (compare Socrates in the Charmides from the army at Potidaea), the figure
  of the game at draughts, borrowed from the Republic, etc.  It has also in
  many passages the ring of sophistry.  On the other hand, the rather
  unhandsome treatment which is exhibited towards Prodicus is quite unlike
  the urbanity of Plato.
  Yet there are some points in the argument which are deserving of
  attention. (1) That wealth depends upon the need of it or demand for it, is
  the first anticipation in an abstract form of one of the great principles of
  modern political economy, and the nearest approach to it to be found in an
  ancient writer.  (2) The resolution of wealth into its simplest implements
  going