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Σωκράτης
οὐ μανθάνεις ὅτι ἐν ἀρχῇ ἀνδρὸς πολιτικοῦ συγγράμματι πρῶτος ὁ ἐπαινέτης γέγραπται.

Φαῖδρος
πῶς;

Σωκράτης
‘ἔδοξέ’ πού φησιν ‘τῇ βουλῇ’ ἢ ‘τῷ δήμῳ’ ἢ ἀμφοτέροις, καὶ ‘ὃς καὶ ὃς εἶπεν’ —τὸν αὑτὸν δὴ λέγων μάλα σεμνῶς καὶ ἐγκωμιάζων ὁ συγγραφεύς—ἔπειτα λέγει δὴ μετὰ τοῦτο, ἐπιδεικνύμενος τοῖς ἐπαινέταις τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σοφίαν, ἐνίοτε πάνυ μακρὸν ποιησάμενος σύγγραμμα: ἤ σοι ἄλλο τι φαίνεται τὸ τοιοῦτον ἢ λόγος συγγεγραμμένος;


Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

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