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even as their bodies are marred by their
arts and crafts. Is not that inevitable?” “Quite
so,” he said. “Is not the picture which they
present,” I said, “precisely that of a little
bald-headed tinker1
who has made money and just been freed from bonds and had a bath and is
wearing a new garment and has got himself up like a bridegroom and is about
to marry his master's daughter
1 For a similar short vivid description Cf. Erastae 134 B, Euthyphro 2 B. Such are common in Plautus, e.g.Mercator 639.
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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