Editing Socratic problem (section)

== Manuscript tradition ==
A fragment of Plato's ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' (588b-589b) was found in Codex VI, of the [[Nag Hammadi library|Nag Hammadi discoveries]] of 1945.<ref>SJ Patterson, Hans-Gebhard Bethge, JM. Robinson - [https://books.google.com/books?id=uKioAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age (p.1)] Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 15 Jun 2010 {{ISBN|0567178269}} [Retrieved 2015-04-20] (primary source for Nag Hammadi was [https://books.google.com/books?id=53JLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 this])</ref><ref>GW Bromiley - [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zkla5Gl_66oC&pg=PA473 The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (p.474)] Wm. B. Eerdmans 1986 Publishing {{ISBN|0802837859}} [Retrieved 2015-04-20]</ref>

=== Plato primary edition ===
The Latin language corpus was by [[Ficinus]] during 1484, the first of a Greek language text was Aldus in 1513.<ref>{{cite book |first=G.J. |last=Boter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eewd2gEKo8kC&pg=PA261 |title=The Textual Tradition of Plato's Republic |publisher=Brill |year=1989 |isbn=9004087877 |access-date=2015-04-20 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-link=Thomas Frognall Dibdin |first=T. Frognall |last=Dibdin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBBgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA296 |title=[no title cited] |publisher=W. Dwyer |year=1804 |page=5}} (located Ficinus using this source, which though provides suggestions of the wrong years for publication - p.&nbsp;5)</ref>

=== Xenophon primary edition ===

The ''[[Memorabilia (Xenophon)|Memorabilia]]'' appeared in the Florence Junta in 1516.<ref>{{cite book |first=M. O'Rourke |last=Boyle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsxGZ1UqBDcC&pg=PA33 |via=Google Books |title=Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin |at=footnote&nbsp;170, p.&nbsp;33 |publisher=Brill |year=1998 |isbn=9004111751 |access-date=2015-04-20 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marsh |first1=David |title=Xenophon |journal=[[Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum]] |volume=7 |page=82 |url=http://catalogustranslationum.org/PDFs/volume07/v07_xenophon.pdf |access-date=25 August 2015}} (''editio princeps'' using {{cite web |url=http://catalogustranslationum.org/PDFs/volume08/v08_xenophon_ac.pdf |first=V. |last=Brown |title=Catalogus Translationum |quote=Cicero translated Oeconomicus}})</ref>

The first ''Apology'' was by [[Johann Reuchlin]] in 1520.<ref>{{cite journal|first=E.A. |last=Schmoll |url=http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/viewFile/4061/6081 |title=The manuscript tradition of Xenophon's ''Apologia Socratis'' |journal=Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |volume=31|issue=1|year=1990 |access-date=2015-04-20 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>