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Plato, Letters
Plato's Letters
also: epistula Platonis, letter of Plato's to the kinsmen of Dion, Platonis ad Dionis propinquos
The collection of letters attributed to Plato, several concerning his Sicilian involvement with Dion and the court of Syracuse. Cicero quotes from the (Seventh) Letter to the kinsmen of Dion Plato's distaste for the gluttonous life of the Italian and Syracusan tables.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §5.100 a celebrated letter of Plato's to the kinsmen of Dion
Plato's (Seventh) Letter to the friends and kinsmen of Dion of Syracuse, in which he records his distaste for the gluttonous Italian and Syracusan way of life, twice gorged each day, as no school for wisdom or moderation.