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Clifton Wilbraham Collins (1844-1918) was an English clergymen and schoolmaster, graduate of Oxford and incorporated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Historian and scholar of Greek and Latin classics, he wrote a history of the War of the Roses (1864) and important essays on the life and works of Sophocles (1871), Lucian (1874) and Plato (1874). From his fundamental essay on Plato we have drawn the biography of the great Greek philosopher, which today we propose to modern readers.