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[125b]

Demodocus
Yes, in faith, Socrates, let us certainly consult, as I feel this is a matter on which no slight counsel is needed.

Socrates
By and by, my good sir. Let us first cross-examine him thoroughly.

Demodocus
Examine him then.

Socrates
Well now, what if we called in Euripides to our aid, Theages? For you know Euripides says:“Despots are wise by converse with the wise.
” Soph. Fr. 14.11 Now, if someone should ask Euripides: Euripides, in what


1 This line, also quoted and attributed to Euripides in Plat. Rep. 568a, appears to belong really to Sophocles' lost tragedy The Locrian Ajax.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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