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and so good judges would be those who had associated
with all sorts and conditions of men.” “Most assuredly I
want them good,” I said; “but do you know whom I regard
as such?” “I'll know if you tell,1” he said.
“Well, I will try,” said I. “You, however,
have put unlike cases in one question.” “How
so?” said he. “Physicians, it is true,” I
said, “would prove most skilled if, from childhood up, in addition
to learning the principles of the art they had familiarized themselves with
the greatest possible number of the most sickly bodies,
1 Slight colloquial jest. Cf. Aristophanes Eq. 1158, Pax 1061.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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