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but each of us had a feeling peculiar to himself and apart from the rest, it would not be easy for him to indicate his own impression to his neighbor. I say this because I notice that you and I are at this moment in much the same condition, since the two of us are enamored each of two things—I of Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, and philosophy, and you of two, the Athenian Demus, and the son of Pyrilampes.1 Now I always observe that, for all your cleverness, you are unable to contradict your favorite,
1 PyrilampesÕ son was named Demus, and was famous for his beauty; cf. Aristoph. Wasps 97. “Demus” was the ordinary word for the “people” of a city.
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