As his words are few and his manner reticent and tentative, so must the style of his interpreter be.

We should not approach his meaning more nearly by attempting to define it further.

In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy.

It is remarkable that although Plato speaks of the idea of good as the first principle of truth and being, it is nowhere mentioned in his writings except in this passage.
Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them.

Nor does the mention of it in Aristotle appear to have any reference to this or any other passage in his extant writings.
BOOK VII.