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to heal a man already at
the point of death, and that for this cause he was struck by the lightning.
But we in accordance with the aforesaid principles1 refuse to believe both
statements, but if he was the son of a god he was not avaricious, we will
insist, and if he was greedy of gain he was not the son of a god.”
“That much,” said he, “is most certainly true.
But what have you to say to this, Socrates, must we not have good physicians
in our city? And they would be the most likely to be good who had treated
the greatest number of healthy and diseased men,
1 Cf. 379 ff., also 365 E.
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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