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as you overheard, not to let you
go till you have expounded all this as fully as you did the rest.”
“Set me down, too,” said Glaucon, “as voting
this ticket.1” “Surely,” said
Thrasymachus, “you may consider it a joint resolution of us all,
Socrates.”“What a
thing you have done,” said I, “in thus challenging2 me! What a huge debate you have
started afresh, as it were, about this polity, in the supposed completion of
which I was rejoicing, being only too glad to have it accepted
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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