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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.