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Socrates
Never mind the little things; let us bring these other things more under the light and see what force of art they have and when.

Phaedrus
They have a very powerful force, at least in large assemblies.

Socrates
They have; but my friend, see if you agree with me in thinking that their warp has gaps in it.

Phaedrus
Go on and show them.

Socrates
Tell me; if anyone should go to your friend Eryximachus or to his father Acumenus and should say “I know how to apply various drugs


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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