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In the present volume are contained those dialogues which, although considered spurious by the generality of critics, are always found in the complete editions of Plato. To these are added the three several Lives attributed to Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius, and Olympiodorus, and the two Introductions to the Platonic System by Alcinous and Albinus; also the three books of Apuleius relating to the Philosophy and Logic of Plato and Aristotle.

Of all these works, the only portions which have hither to appeared in an English dress, are the Epinomis, the Life of Plato by Diogenes Laertius, and the Introduction of Alcinous. But even of these not one has been translated directly from the original. In the Epinomis, Taylor followed the Latin version of Ficinus as revised by Grynseus; and Stanley, strange to say, adopted, in preference to the Greek, Ficinus's Latin version of Alcinous as revised by D. Heinsius; while Smith, in