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[107c] for the health of the citizens; all that they require of their counsellor is that he be a physician.

Alcibiades
Naturally.

Socrates
Then what will they have under consideration if you are to be right in standing up, when you do so, as their counsellor?

Alcibiades
Their own affairs, Socrates.

Socrates
Do you mean with regard to shipbuilding, and the question as to what sort of ships they ought to get built?

Alcibiades
No, I do not, Socrates.

Socrates
Because, I imagine, you do not understand shipbuilding. Is that, and that alone, the reason?

Alcibiades
That is just the reason.


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