About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, m
ore accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, unpretentious,
and in translating Plato that counts a good deal. The prose is, as English prose
, persuasive, cogent, and as eloquent as it can be without departing from the te
xt.
