ABSTRACT
We now have sufficient examples at hand to enable us to treat the question of the allusions in Plato afresh.74 The question is of course not whether there are allusions and references which are left to the actively engaged reader to express-it is obvious that there are such things in Plato; but, since there are such things in other authors too, as we shall see, we must, in order to find what is specifically Platonic about Plato’s philosophical writing, inquire more closely what status he assigned to writing allusively.
