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“that you haven't
heard that there is to be a torchlight race1 this evening on horseback in honor of the Goddess?”
“On horseback?” said I. “That is a new idea.
Will they carry torches and pass them along to one another as they race with
the horses, or how do you mean?” “That's the way of
it,” said Polemarchus, “and, besides, there is to be a
night festival which will be worth seeing. For after dinner we will get
up2 and go out and see the sights and meet a lot of the
lads there and have good talk. So stay
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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