Burnet’s Oxford Classical Text (1900–1907), Jowett (1892) & Stephanus Citations

Primary Textual Witness, Canonical a–e Folio Anchors & Cryptographic Provenance

Stephanus Pagination (Geneva, 1578)

All scholarly citations to Plato across classical philology, history of mathematics, and the GEOMETOR ecosystem refer to the three-volume Greek-Latin edition printed in Geneva in 1578 by Henri Estienne (Henricus Stephanus, Platonis opera quae extant omnia). Each page of Estienne’s edition is divided into five vertical lettered sections (a, b, c, d, e) separating the Greek column from Jean de Serres’s Latin translation:

  • Volume I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Theaetetus (142a–210d), Sophist, Statesman, Cratylus, Parmenides (126a–166c), Philebus (11a–67b), Symposium, Phaedrus (with Laws in Volume II).

  • Volume II: Alcibiades I–II, Hipparchus, Rivals, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno (70a–100b), Hippias Major & Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Clitophon, Republic I–X (327a–621d), Laws I–XII (624a–969d), Epinomis.

  • Volume III: Timaeus (17a–92c), Critias, Minos, Epistles.

In geometor/plato, every Stephanus transition in the Greek text emits a synchronized .. folio:: directive and explicit .. _stephanus-<dialogue>-<sec>: cross-reference anchor (for example #stephanus-meno-82b, #stephanus-theaetetus-147d, #stephanus-republic-509d, #stephanus-timaeus-35b, #stephanus-timaeus-53c), enabling deterministic deep links from resources/concordance.json and sister repositories.

John Burnet’s Oxford Classical Text (1900–1907)

The Greek (Burnet OCT) track (-el.rst) stages verbatim polytonic Greek from John Burnet's five-volume Clarendon Press critical edition (Platonis Opera), parsed directly from the CC-BY-SA / public-domain Perseus Digital Library Canonical GreekLit TEI-XML witnesses stored in resources/loci_mathematici/sources/el/:

  • tlg0059.tlg024.burnet_oct.xml — Meno (Tomus III, 1903)

  • tlg0059.tlg006.burnet_oct.xml — Theaetetus (Tomus I, 1900)

  • tlg0059.tlg030.burnet_oct.xml — Respublica (Tomus IV, 1902)

  • tlg0059.tlg031.burnet_oct.xml — Timaeus (Tomus IV, 1902)

  • tlg0059.tlg009.burnet_oct.xml — Parmenides (Tomus II, 1901)

  • tlg0059.tlg010.burnet_oct.xml — Philebus (Tomus II, 1901)

  • tlg0059.tlg034.burnet_oct.xml — Leges (Tomus V, 1907)

All editorial footnotes (<note>) and bibliographic tags (<bibl>) embedded in the TEI apparatus are stripped deterministically during compilation while preserving Burnet’s speaker labels (ΣΩ., ΜΕΝ., ΠΑΙ., ΘΕΑΙ., ΓΛ., ΤΙ., ΠΑΡ., ΠΡΩ., ΑΘ.), polytonic breathing/accentuation, and exact <milestone unit="section" resp="Stephanus" n="..."/> boundaries.

Benjamin Jowett’s 3rd Revised Edition (1892)

The English track (-en.rst) stages the public-domain 3rd revised Oxford Clarendon Press translation (1892) of Benjamin Jowett (The Dialogues of Plato) from verified Project Gutenberg plain-text witnesses in resources/loci_mathematici/sources/en/:

  • meno_jowett_pg1643.txt (Meno, PG #1643)

  • theaetetus_jowett_pg1726.txt (Theaetetus, PG #1726)

  • republic_jowett_pg55201.txt (Republic, PG #55201 — cleaned of marginal sidenotes, footnotes, and Beta Code Greek escapes)

  • timaeus_jowett_pg1572.txt (Timaeus, PG #1572)

  • parmenides_jowett_pg1687.txt (Parmenides, PG #1687)

  • philebus_jowett_pg1744.txt (Philebus, PG #1744)

  • laws_jowett_pg1750.txt (Laws, PG #1750)

Every staged file in resources/loci_mathematici/sources/ is audited by byte length and SHA-256 digest in resources/loci_mathematici/sources_manifest.json and automatically verified by pytest and geometor-plato verify.