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[219a] and in fact are designing to fetch off the old bargain of ““gold for bronze”.”12 But be more wary, my gifted friend: you may be deceived and I may be worthless. Remember, the intellectual sight begins to be keen when the visual is entering on its wane; but you are a long way yet from that time.’

“To this I answered: You have heard what I had to say; not a word differed from the feeling in my mind: it is for you now to consider what you judge to be best for you and me.’

“Ah, there you speak to some purpose,’ he said: ‘for in the days that are to come


1 Hom. Il. 6.236

2 Glaucus foolishly exchanging his golden armour for the bronze armour of Diomedes.

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    • Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 6.236
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 214D
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 216E
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 219C
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