John Quincy Adams. The signature of the sixth President of the United States, indicating this volume was part of his personal library.

OF THE DIVINE

PLATO

ALL THE

EXTANT WORKS. original: "ΤΟΥ ΘΕΙΟΥ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ ΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ" — "Divine" was a traditional honorific used for Plato since antiquity because of the elevated nature of his philosophy.

THE COMPLETE

EXTANT WORKS

OF THE DIVINE

PLATO.

Adams 31 / A library shelf mark or catalog number.

WITH MARSILIO FICINO AS TRANSLATOR. Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was a central figure of the Italian Renaissance whose Latin translations made Plato accessible to Western Europe for the first time in centuries.

The Greek text has been compared as carefully as possible with the most corrected copies: the Latin translation has been purged of the many errors found in previous editions.

The entire work is explained and illustrated with continuous arguments original: "argumentis" — here meaning summaries or introductory outlines for each dialogue and certain commentaries by the same Marsilio Ficino, and these are now published in a much more corrected form than before. Why these have been moved to the end of the work, and what has been put in their place for this arrangement, is clear from the letter to the Reader.

The Life of Plato, most fully described by Diogenes Laertius: likewise, the very learned short work by Timaeus Locrus A work on the soul and the world once attributed to a Pythagorean philosopher; it is now considered a later imitation of Plato's 'Timaeus' (which Latin copies lacked), and many other things not to be overlooked, have been added to this edition.

At the house of François le Preux.

1590.

AT GENEVA.