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[287β] παραδοῦναι ἀνθρώπων τῷ ἐθέλοντι μανθάνειν;

εἶτ᾽, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατες, ὁ Διονυσόδωρος ὑπολαβών, οὕτως εἶ Κρόνος, ὥστε ἃ τὸ πρῶτον εἴπομεν νῦν ἀναμιμνῄσκῃ, καὶ εἴ τι πέρυσιν εἶπον, νῦν ἀναμνησθήσῃ, τοῖς δ᾽ ἐν τῷ παρόντι λεγομένοις οὐχ ἕξεις ὅτι χρῇ;

καὶ γάρ, ἔφην ἐγώ, χαλεποί εἰσιν πάνυ—εἰκότως: παρὰ σοφῶν γὰρ λέγονται—ἐπεὶ καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τελευταίῳ παγχάλεπον χρήσασθαί ἐστιν, ᾧ λέγεις. τὸ γὰρ ‘οὐκ ἔχω ὅτι χρῶμαι’ τί ποτε λέγεις, ὦ Διονυσόδωρε; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι ὡς


Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

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