[357a]
Socrates
When I had said this I supposed that I was
done with the subject, but it all turned out to be only a prelude. For
Glaucon, who is always an intrepid enterprising spirit in everything, would
not on this occasion acquiesce in Thrasymachus's abandonment1 of his case,
but said, “Socrates, is it your desire to seem to have persuaded
us
1 So in Philebus 11 C, Philebus cries off or throws up the sponge in the argument.
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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