[455a]
precisely for what art or pursuit concerned with the
conduct of a state the woman's nature differs from the man's?”
“That would be at any rate fair.” “Perhaps,
then, someone else, too, might say what you were saying a while ago, that it
is not easy to find a satisfactory answer on a sudden,1 but that with time
for reflection there is no difficulty.” “He might say
that.” “Shall we, then, beg the raiser of such
objections to follow us,
1 Plato anticipates the objection that the Socratic dialectic surprises assent. Cf. more fully 487 B, and for a comic version Hippias Major 295 A “if I could go off for a little by myself in solitude I would tell you the answer more precisely than precision itself.”
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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