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speaking before the people and one who speaks in a conversation like ours is that the former persuades men in a number together of the same things, and the latter persuades them one at a time?Alcibiades
It looks like it.Socrates
Come now, since we see that the same man may persuade either many or one, try your unpracticed hand on me, and endeavor to show that the just is sometimes not expedient.Alcibiades
You are insolent, Socrates!Socrates
This time, at any rate, I am going to have the insolence to persuade you of the opposite of that which you decline to prove to me.Alcibiades
Speak, then.Socrates
Just answer my questions.
It looks like it.Socrates
Come now, since we see that the same man may persuade either many or one, try your unpracticed hand on me, and endeavor to show that the just is sometimes not expedient.Alcibiades
You are insolent, Socrates!Socrates
This time, at any rate, I am going to have the insolence to persuade you of the opposite of that which you decline to prove to me.Alcibiades
Speak, then.Socrates
Just answer my questions.