Plato, Statesman, section 268d

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[268d]

Younger Socrates
It certainly was.

Stranger
Then we must attend to that, Socrates, if we are not to end our argument in disgrace.

Younger Socrates
But we certainly must not do that.

Stranger
Then we must begin again from a new sarting-point and travel by a different road.

Younger Socrates
By what road?

Stranger
By one which offers us some amusement; for there is a famous story a great part of which it is really our duty to insert into our discussion; and then after that we can proceed as before,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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