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Excerpt from Quaestionum De Dialogis Platoni Falso Addictis Specimen
Clerici1 Horreique2 coniectura Axiochus et Eryxias et de virtute dialogus per longum tempus pro genuinis Aeschinis Socratici Opusculis habiti editi lectitati sunt. Dein cum hanc opinionem abiciendam esse inter plurimos convenisset, Boeckh in 'com mentatione in Platonis qui vulgo fertur Minoem eiusdemque libros priores de legibus) Laertii testimonio et ipse fretus, de virtute et de iusto dialogos cum Minoe et Hipparcho Simonis sutoris esse Socratis ut traditur amici et discipuli demonstrate conatus est. Hodie cum vix quisquam causae Boeckhianae susceperit patrocinium. Contra disputare non Opus est. Atque iure Panaetium8 Socraticorum omnes praeter Platonis Xeno phontis Antisthenis Aeschinis Phaedonis Euclidis dialogos spurios indicasse sive negas sive ais, neutiquam, si dialogi alicuius titulus Pseud0platonici in indicibus illis occurrit, eam ob causam dili gentissima ipsius supersedemus perscrutatione. Accedit quod illi minime ab omni labe immunes sunt. Cuius rei unum pro feram exemplum.
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