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Socrates
“What then? Do not gold and ivory,” he will say, “when they are appropriate, make things beautiful, and when they are not appropriate, ugly?” Shall we deny that, or agree that what he says is correct?Hippias
We shall agree to this, at any rate, that whatever is appropriate to any particular thing makes that thing beautiful.Socrates
“Well, then,” he will say, “when some one has boiled the pot of which we were speaking just now, the beautiful one, full of beautiful soup, is a golden ladle appropriate to it, or one made of fig wood?”Hippias
Heracles! What a fellow this is that you speak of!
“What then? Do not gold and ivory,” he will say, “when they are appropriate, make things beautiful, and when they are not appropriate, ugly?” Shall we deny that, or agree that what he says is correct?Hippias
We shall agree to this, at any rate, that whatever is appropriate to any particular thing makes that thing beautiful.Socrates
“Well, then,” he will say, “when some one has boiled the pot of which we were speaking just now, the beautiful one, full of beautiful soup, is a golden ladle appropriate to it, or one made of fig wood?”Hippias
Heracles! What a fellow this is that you speak of!