[484a]
Socrates
“So now, Glaucon,” I said,
“our argument after winding1 a long2 and
weary way has at last made clear to us who are the philosophers or lovers of
wisdom and who are not.” “Yes,” he said,
“a shorter way is perhaps not feasible.”
“Apparently not,” I said. “I, at any rate,
think that the matter would have been made still plainer if we had had
nothing but this to speak of, and if there were not so many things left
which our purpose3 of
discerning the difference between the just and
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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