Life of King of Kings Giorgi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)

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Author	Unknown Author (Life of King of Kings Giorgi)
Epoch	XIII c.
Work	Life of King of Kings Giorgi (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959)
Type	Prose
Quote	“As Plato, the radiant light of philosophical contemplation, says: “kindness is kindness for the kind, for the evil, it is evil” (pg. 53)
Term	Plato ( )

Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.

Comment	T. Khaukhchishvili: “We do not know, where the citation, per se, comes from” (Antique World in the Historiography of Rustaveli Epoch. Historians of Tamar, Macne, the series of history, archeology, ethnography and history of art, Tbilisi, 1974, p. 106). According to S. Khaukhchishvili, this citation is taken out from Ioane Petritsi’s works (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959, pg. 53).

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T. Khaukhchishvili: “We do not know, where the citation, per se, comes from” (Antique World in the Historiography of Rustaveli Epoch. Historians of Tamar, Macne, the series of history, archeology, ethnography and history of art, Tbilisi, 1974, p. 106).

According to S. Khaukhchishvili, this citation is taken out from Ioane Petritsi’s works (Life of Kartli, text identified based on all key manuscripts by S. Kaukhchishvili, v. II, 1959, pg. 53).

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