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this I infer from the fact that I did not recognize the name when I heard it.That is because they do not usually call him by his name, he replied; he still goes by his paternal title,1 as his father is so very well known. You must, I am sure, be anything but ignorant of the boy's appearance: that alone would be enough to know him by.Let me hear, I said, whose son he is.The eldest son, he replied, of Democrates of Aexone.Ah well, I said, Hippothales, what an altogether noble and gallant love you have discovered there! Now please go on and give me a performance like those that you give your friends here,
1 i.e., “son of Democrates” (see below)
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.
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