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[150d] It is necessary, therefore, to bide one's time until one can learn how one should behave towards gods and men.

Alcibiades
Well, when will that time arrive, Socrates, and who is to be my instructor? For I feel I should very much like to see who the man is,

Socrates
It is he who is concerned about you. But I think, as Homer relates how Athena removed the mist from the eyes of Diomede,“That be might well discern both god and man,
Hom. Il. 5.127.


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