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Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo

Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo (dialogues, c. 399-387 BCE)

Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE) · dialogues, c. 399-387 BCE

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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AttestedConfirmed reading1833Evidence ↓

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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  • 1833ApologyAttested

    “The "Apology" I deem only remarkable for the noble tone of sentiment, and beautiful calmness.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re567 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Continues the same first-person dialogue-reading report on the Platonic dialogues ('The Apology I deem only remarkable...').

  • 1833CritoAttested

    “Crito" I have read only once, but like it.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re566 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit 'Crito I have read only once, but like it.'

  • 1833EuthyphroAttested

    “I part with Plato with regret... Eutyphron is excellent... declares, "qu'il aimerait incomparablement mieux des principes fixes et inebranlables a l'habilite de Dedale avec les tresors de Tantale.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833

    Explicit 'I part with Plato with regret... Eutyphron is excellent' is a first-person reading completion statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“June 3, 1833. — I part with Plato with regret. I could have wished to 'enchant myself,' as Socrates would say, with him some days longer. Eutyphron is excellent...”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.