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Eucleides
Just barely alive; for he is suffering severely from wounds, and, worse than that, he has been taken with the sickness that has broken out in the army.

Terpsion
You mean the dysentery?

Eucleides
Yes.

Terpsion
What a man he is who you say is in danger!

Eucleides
A noble man, Terpsion, and indeed just now I heard some people praising him highly for his conduct in the battle.

Terpsion
That is not at all strange; it would have been much more remarkable if he had not so conducted himself. But why did he not


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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