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We must tell it, then; and even if
my language is somewhat rude and brutal,1 you must
not suppose, Socrates, that it is I who speak thus, but those who commend
injustice above justice. What they will say is this: that such being his
disposition the just man will have to endure the lash, the rack, chains,
1 Cf. 613 E, Gorgias 486 C, 509 A, Apology 32 D. The Greeks were sensitive to rude or boastful speech.
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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