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“Nevertheless,” interposed Socrates, “do not draw the comparison, lest you take on a similar likeness to one stooping to abuse.”“But suppose I am likening him to all the upright, the very e/lite; then I should deserve to be compared to a eulogist, rather than to a detractor.”“Ah, you resemble the latter right now, for you are asserting that every one is better than he.”1
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1 i.e., (if the text is sound), by saying that he resembles the virtuous, thus assuming that he is not actually one of them.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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