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[451e] and still by no means clear. I expect you have heard people singing over their cups the old catch, in which the singers enumerate the best things in life,—““first health, then beauty, and thirdly,” as the maker of the catch puts it, “wealth got without guile.””1

Gorgias
Yes, I have heard it; but what is the point of your quotation?


1 Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Gr. viii., gives four lines of the (anonymous) song: ὑγιαίνειν μὲν ἄριστον ἀνδρὶ θνατῷ, δεύτερον δὲ φυὰν καλὸν γενέσθαι, τὸ τρίτον δὲ πλουτεῖν ἀδόλως, καὶ τὸ τέταρτον ἡβᾶν μετὰ τῶν φίλων.

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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