Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 371b

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[371b] to have said anything to him which indicates that he noticed his falsehood.

Hippias
What is this that you say, Socrates?

Socrates
Don't you know that after he said to Odysseus that he was going to sail away at daybreak, in speaking to Ajax he does not repeat that he is going to sail away, but says something different?

Hippias
Where, pray?

Socrates
Where he says:“For I shall not be mindful of bloody war until warlike Priam's son,
”

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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