Delphic inscription
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A pledge, and thereupon perdition · Know Thyself · Nothing overmuch · the inscription at Delphi
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Charmides (Greek)
are the same, as the inscription and I declare, though one is likely enough to think them different—an error into which I consider the dedicators of the later inscriptions fell when they put up Nothing overmuch and A pledge, and thereupon perdition.
in the texts
Panathenaicus
The Delphic maxim implicitly invoked as an authority for self-knowledge after the debate.
For he went his way, having grown wiser and feeling chastened in spirit, as is becoming to men of intelligence he had experienced the force of the inscription at Delphi and come to know both himself and the nature of the Lacedaemonians better than before.
Charmides
The dedicatory inscriptions at Delphi discussed by Critias, including 'Know Thyself,' 'Nothing overmuch,' and 'A pledge, and thereupon perdition.'
are the same, as the inscription and I declare, though one is likely enough to think them different—an error into which I consider the dedicators of the later inscriptions fell when they put up Nothing overmuch and A pledge, and thereupon perdition.