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δουλοπρεπεῖς: plays on 485 b and similar expressions in the earlier conversation with Callicles, i.e. 485 d. The attributes of rhetoric and philosophy are just reversed.

τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας: “arts ordinarily designated as such.”

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