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Phaedrus

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Phaedrus [ˈfiːdrəs]
n
(Biographies / Phaedrus (?15 bc-?50 ad) M, Roman, WRITING: poet) ?15 bc-?50 ad, Roman author of five books of Latin verse fables, based chiefly on Aesop


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The doctrines of immortality and pre-existence are carried further in the Phaedrus and Phaedo; the distinction between opinion and knowledge is more fully developed in the Theaetetus.
The Republic, like the Phaedrus, is an imperfect whole; the higher light of philosophy breaks through the regularity of the Hellenic temple, which at last fades away into the heavens.
I have been taught these two aphorisms in Latin and in Greek; one is, I believe, from Phaedrus, and the other from Bias.
 
 
 
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