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Ideas of Amphis, by Text

[Greek, fl. 350 BCE, Wrote comic plays.]

350BCE

comedies (frags)

	p.123	3032	I can form no notion of what the good is
			Full Idea: What the good is I no more can form a notion of, than of the good of Plato.
			From: Amphis (comedies (frags) [c.350 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 03.1.22
			A reaction: It was evidently a running joke in the ancient world that no one could define Plato's Form of the Good. He was said to have written a book on it, now lost.