Polus
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For the Soviet Union steamship, see SS Polus.
Polus (Greek: Πῶλος, "colt", c. 5th century BCE) is the nickname Plato gave to an Ancient Greek Athenian philosophical figure. He was a pupil of the famous orator Gorgias, and teacher of rhetoric from the city of Acragas, Sicily.
All that is known of Polus derives from the Socratic dialogues of Plato, which suggests he was an associate of Socrates. He features heavily in the Gorgias, a dialogue on the nature of government as a rude and volatile character. Polus also appears in the Phaedrus and Theages dialogues.
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Polus is also the Roman name for the Greek Titan Coeus, as well as the name of a military satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
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- Plato (1871).
Gorgias. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Wikisource. 461b
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