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INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILEBUS.
With regard to the difficulties of the text, no better proof can be given, than the fact, that Sydenham's translation is merely a paraphrase, in many places so loose, as to preserve little trace of the original; while Stalbaum, who has published two editions of the dialogue, each with an elaborate commentary, has, in the one, expressed opinions the very reverse of what are given in the other.
The reader will therefore have no reason to wonder that I have frequently been tossed in a sea of doubt, and unable to find the haven of certainty.
