[en] On the use of proverbial expressions in Plato's Phaedo

The article studies the proverbial expressions that appear in Phaedo, analyzing the sources that inform us about them, the interpretation problems they present, and the way in which Plato uses them in the dialogue: its use to describe characters and to define the relationships between them, or to give a certain tone to a speech or a conversation, or to underline important themes or images, or to performe a structural function at the beginning or end of a section or at the transition between two sections.