Cartas de Platão

[11.358d] Plato to Laodamas wishes well-doing.

[10.358c] Plato to Aristodorus wishes well-doing.

I hear that you now are and always have been one of Dion’s most intimate companions, since of all who pursue philosophy you exhibit the most philosophic disposition ; for steadfastness, trustiness, and sincerity — these I affirm to be the genuine philosophy, but as to all other forms of science and cleverness which tend in other directions, I shall, I believe, be giving them their right names if I dub them “parlor-tricks.” So farewell, and continue in the same disposition in which you are continuing now.

[9.357d] Plato to Archytas of Tarentum wishes well-doing.

[8.352b] Plato to the relatives and companions of Dion wishes well-doing.

[6.322c] Plato to Hermeias and Erastus and Coriscus wishes well-doing.

[5.321c] Plato to Perdiccas wishes well-doing.

[4.320a] Plato to Dion of Syracuse wishes well-doing.

[3.315a] “Plato to Dionysius wishes joy !”

If I wrote thus, [3.315b] should I be hitting on the best mode of address ? Or rather, by writing, according to my custom, “Wishes well-doing,” this being my usual mode of address, in my letters to my friends ? You, indeed, — as was reported by the spectators then present — addressed even the God himself at Delphi in this same flattering phrase, and wrote, as they say, this verse —

I wish you joy ! And may you always keep

The tyrant’s life a life of pleasantness.

LETTER II

[2.310b] Plato to Dionysius wishes well-doing.