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for I consider this the right view.
Then I asked him: Well now, in athletics, do you consider that much exercise is love of athletics?
To which he replied: Certainly, just as in philosophizing I consider much learning to be philosophy.
Then I said: And do you then consider that the lovers of athletics desire anything else than that which will cause them to be in good bodily condition?
Only that, he replied.
And does much exercise, I asked, cause them to be in good bodily condition?