Dissent from the opinion of Stallbaum and others, that it is intended toderide Protagoras and other Sophists.
I do not at all concur in his general view of the Politikus, wherein he represents the dialogue as intended to deride the Megaric philosophers.
He says not a word about any intention on the part of Plato to deride the Sophists or any other Etymologists.
Dissent from the opinion of Stallbaum and others, that it is intended to deride Protagoras and other Sophists ib.
To regard them as intentional caricatures, would be to suppose that Plato is seeking intentionally to discredit and deride his own theory of the Absolute: for the discredit could fall nowhere else.
Platonic etymologies in the Kratylus are caricatured to deride the boastful and arbitrary etymologies of the Sophists about language.
Side-note: Plato did not intend to propose mock-etymologies, or to deride any one.
Zeus has my heart, gods only can I love, The gods deride me, Zeus despises me!
The general who gives an order for wholesale carnage never sleeps a wink the less soundly for the midnight groans of his victims, and we should deride him as a coward if he did.
Occult qualities have for a very long time been much derided; it would be more proper to deride those who do not believe in them.
Soon Penson began toderide and abuse the prophet; whereupon Muggleton calmly "did pronounce this Penson cursed to eternity.
If you disregard deride or drive away the demon of egoism, from the recess of your mind, there is no damage or danger, that it can ever bring upon you in any wise.
He came to behold before him a brittle piece of glass, shining with its false glare as the former gem; and this was placed in his presence by the invisible hands of the siddha that had come to tempt him and deride his folly.
They make an image of some one in whom they do not believe, to deride it.
Her voice was musically thrilling in that low muted tone of the very heart, impossible to deride or disbelieve.
Her father went to London so rarely that she might well deride the danger of his visits.
P: And the evils of what they did will appear unto them, and that which they used to deride will befall them.
P: Those who point at such of the believers as give the alms willingly and such as can find naught to give but their endeavours, and deride them - Allah (Himself) derideth them.
This story may be questioned, and it has been observed that he was not insensible to ridicule, for he said shortly before his death that no one would deride him any longer.
He also considered that, in turn, his enemies would deride him, if he were unsuccessful.
I do not deride her; I admire her within certain limits.
You have a certain sympathy with the people, though you deride my poor Rose.
An attentive study of the Greek and Roman literatures furnishes many illustrations of the remark just made, that men who degrade womenderide them.
The brilliant men of the time had learned to deride the faith which had been a restraining force upon the propensities of man for fifteen centuries, but were very far from having learned to be continent, temperate, and just without its aid.
These raging partisans want to pluck it out, deride it, and fasten it to their own foreheads.
Ye Coales unto ye Scuttle slide, Soe yn her Hatt wolde I, and hide To steale some Kissestwo or three: But synce She never asketh me, Ye scornful Cynick doth deride Her scuttle Hatt!
Let him who seeth them not, deride me for saying these things, and I will pity him, while he derides me.
Out of which counsel Thou didst deride ours, and preparedst Thine own; purposing to give us meat in due season, and to fill our souls with blessing.
Suppose your friends deride the hat, make fun of it: at once it loses its value; you are ashamed of it, you put it out of your sight, you never want to see it again.
Ten years later it was the fashion in Rome to deride those statues, as a late work of the empire and greatly lacking in artistic style.
Yes, all Rome has witnessed this insult, and these miserable Romans have even dared to dishonor us with irony and satire, and to mock and deride Spain, while they overload you with their praises!
Ah, while thousands lie at my feet, imploring for a glance or a smile, this little, unknown singer dares to scorn me and deride my love!
It was a living garden of artificial flowers, where the natural blossoms on figured satins seemed to deride the unnatural bloom on disfigured faces.
A whisper was spreading from member to member that the King had arrived at the palace with a ragged beggar-girl, and meant to insult the nation and deride the constitution by making her his Queen at the last moment.
