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[140c] their several departments of craft, and all of them are craftsmen; yet they are not all carpenters or cobblers or statuaries, though these taken together are craftsmen.

Alcibiades
No, indeed.

Socrates
In the same way, then, have men divided unwisdom also among them, and those who have the largest share of it we call “mad,” and those who have a little less, “dolts” and “idiots”; though people who prefer to use the mildest language term them sometimes “romantic,”1 sometimes “simpleminded,”2 or again


1 μεγαλόψυχος has here declined from “high-souled” or “magnanimous” to something like “Quixotic.”

2 εὐήθης, even in Plato's time, varied between “good-hearted” and “silly.”

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