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Theages
To govern the people in the city, I imagine.Socrates
And are the sick people also in the city?Theages
Yes, but I mean not these only, but all the rest who are in the city besides.Socrates
Do I understand what art it is that you mean? For you strike me as meaning, not that whereby we know how to govern reapers and harvesters and planters and sowers and threshers, for it is the farmer's art whereby we govern these, is it not?Theages
Yes.
To govern the people in the city, I imagine.Socrates
And are the sick people also in the city?Theages
Yes, but I mean not these only, but all the rest who are in the city besides.Socrates
Do I understand what art it is that you mean? For you strike me as meaning, not that whereby we know how to govern reapers and harvesters and planters and sowers and threshers, for it is the farmer's art whereby we govern these, is it not?Theages
Yes.