Plato, Gorgias, section 448d

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[448d]

Socrates
Fine, at any rate, Gorgias, is the equipment for discourse that Polus seems to have got: but still he is not performing his promise to Chaerephon.

Gorgias
How exactly, Socrates ?

Socrates
He does not seem to me to be quite answering what he is asked.

Gorgias
Well, will you please ask him?

Socrates
No, if you yourself will be so good as to answer, why, I would far rather ask you. For I see plainly,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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