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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Thrasymachus

    historical figure · 7 works · 14 mentions · 20 anchored passages

    Thrasymachus of Chalcedon · Thrasymachus of Collytus · friend Thrasymachus · he · most worshipful Thrasymachus · the mighty Chalcedonian

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Thrasymachus of Collytus1 mention

    Against Ctesiphon (Greek)

    first, Thrasymachus of Collytus, a man trusted in Thebes as no other ever was;
    against ctesiphon

    in the texts

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    A sophist from Chalcedon present at Cephalus's house who forcefully argues that justice is the advantage of the stronger.

    Very well, said I, since it has been made clear that this too is not justice and the just, what else is there that we might say justice to be?
    chapter 1
    That’s because you are wise, Thrasymachus, and so you knew very well that if you asked a man how many are twelve, and in putting the question warned him:
    chapter 1
    This, then, my good sir, is what I understand as the identical principle of justice that obtains in all states —the advantage of the established government.
    chapter 1

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    A rhetorician repeatedly named as an exemplar of the kind of speech-teaching Socrates challenges to ground itself in knowledge of the soul.

    Nor of Nestor’s either, unless you are disguising Gorgias under the name of Nestor and Thrasymachus or Theodorus under that of Odysseus.
    phaedrus
    So it is clear that Thrasymachus, or anyone else who seriously teaches the art of rhetoric, will first describe the soul with perfect accuracy and make us see whether it is one and all alike, or, like the body, of multiform aspect;
    phaedrus
    But tell me now what name to give to those who are taught by you and Lysias, or is this that art of speech by means of which Thrasymachus and the rest have become able speakers themselves, and make others so, if they are willing to pay them royal tribute?
    phaedrus

    Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

    Athenian with close Theban relations who had gone on missions to Thebes.

    first, Thrasymachus of Collytus, a man trusted in Thebes as no other ever was;
    against ctesiphon

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    Character in Plato's dialogues cited as an example of a mocked interlocutor.

    in Thrasymachus assailing his boldness and rashness, in Hippias the lightness and emptiness of his mind, and in Protagoras his arrogance and pomposity.
    letter 135

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Sophist and orator cited as borrower from Euripides's Telephus.

    ", Thrasymachus in the speech on behalf of the Larisaeans says, "Shall we, being Greeks, be slaves to Archelaus, a barbarian?
    book 6

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Sophist and interlocutor in Socratic dialogues

    Nor, then, did he make Gorgias or Polus or Thrasymachus or Prodicus or Meno or Euthyphro or Anytus or Alcibiades or Laches speak in vain, when he might have removed the names;
    oration 55

    On the Estate of NicostratusClassical · Greek

    Man identified by Hagnon and Hagnotheus as the father of Nicostratus and brother of their own father, making them first cousins of the deceased.

    Hagnon here and Hagnotheus described Nicostratus in their claim as the son of Thrasymachus and declare that they are his first cousins and prove these statements by witnesses.
    on the estate of nicostratus
    he himself claimed the estate of Nicostratus the son of Smicrus, and paid the deposit for a suit against my clients when they claimed the estate of the son of Thrasymachus, just as though it were a question of one and the same person.
    on the estate of nicostratus