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[128c] if he is willing. But he is only jesting in what he has just told us. For I know of some of my equals in age, and some a little older, who were of no account before they learnt from him, but after beginning to learn from him have in a very short time proved themselves superior to all whose inferiors they were before.

Socrates
And do you know what the meaning of it is, son of Demodocus?

Theages
Yes, on my soul, I do—that, if it be your pleasure, I too shall be able to become such as those others are.


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