Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 367d

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[367d] as you thought just now.

Hippias
Apparently not, at least in this field.

Socrates
Shall we, then, investigate elsewhere?

Hippias
If you like.

Socrates
Well, then, are you expert in geometry also?

Hippias
I am.

Socrates
Well, has not the same man most power to speak falsehood and truth about geometry, namely the geometrician?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
In respect to that, then, is any other good than he?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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