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[260δ] καρπὸν ὧν ἔσπειρε θερίζειν;

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οὐ πάνυ γε ἐπιεικῆ.

Σωκράτης
ἆρ᾽ οὖν, ὦ ἀγαθέ, ἀγροικότερον τοῦ δέοντος λελοιδορήκαμεν τὴν τῶν λόγων τέχνην; ἡ δ᾽ ἴσως ἂν εἴποι: ‘τί ποτ᾽, ὦ θαυμάσιοι, ληρεῖτε; ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐδέν᾽ ἀγνοοῦντα τἀληθὲς ἀναγκάζω μανθάνειν λέγειν, ἀλλ᾽, εἴ τι ἐμὴ συμβουλή, κτησάμενον ἐκεῖνο οὕτως ἐμὲ λαμβάνειν: τόδε δ᾽ οὖν μέγα λέγω, ὡς ἄνευ ἐμοῦ τῷ τὰ ὄντα εἰδότι οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἔσται πείθειν τέχνῃ.’


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

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