The eighth letter

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"The eighth letter" (だいはちしょかん, rare :Ἐπιστολήη', Luo: Epistula VIII British: Epistle VIII, Eighth Epistle, Eighth Letter) is one of the letters of "the collected letters" of Plato.

It becomes the contents supplementing "the seventh letter".

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Summary

In B.C. 352, Plato is stormy about 75 years old; as the thing which supplements the contents right after sent "the seventh letter" to Dion school after the Dion death of rear island Syracuse thought to be the 追送 done letter [¹].

The main contents do suggestion to let you govern three jointly after having established meeting, a law as King of ヒッパリノス which is the Dionysius second who is the son, progeny, the ヒッパリノス second [⁴], a son of Dion after being a concrete procedure to transfer it to "constitutionalism monarchy" (monarchy governed by a law) as the good country system where Dion expected it from, and having emphasized contribution of the defense of the fatherland in the war with ex-Cartago of the Dionysius first [²] and the ヒッパリノス first [³] while reconciling the relations of a usurper of the throne group and the democracy group (I include Dion school) of Syracuse.

 

The complicated relations of the Dionysiuss and person of ヒッパリノス. Half-sister and Dion are the younger sisters, and the Dionysius second is married to a niece of oneself each.

Contents

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Translation version

• "Complete works of Plato <14> エピノミス (the law latter part), collected letters" Aritsune Mizuno, Koichi Nagasaka reason Iwanami Shoten

Footnote

1. ^ "complete works of Plato 14" Iwanami Shoten p241
2. It is a predecessors in the family line usurper of the throne in father of the ^ Dionysius second and the ヒッパリノス second.
3. The person who it was a father-in-law of the ^ Dionysius first, and acted as the long part of an aged person. It is father of Dion.
4. A half-brother of the ^ Dionysius second. I help the Dion group.

Allied item

• Dion of Syracuse
• The Dionysius second

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