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[125d] In wrestling?

Theages
Yes.

Socrates
But as he said:“Despots are wise by converse with the wise,
”? Soph. Fr. 14.1 and we ask him,—In what do you mean that the latter are wise, Euripides?—what will he reply? What sort of subjects will he mention here?

Theages
Why, upon my word, I for my part do not know.

Socrates
Well, do you mind if I tell you?

Theages
If you do not mind.

Socrates
They are the same subjects that Anacreon said Callicrite understood; or do you not know the ode?1

Theages
I do.

Socrates
Well then, do you desire to partake in some instruction of that sort from any man


1 Nothing is known of this poem.

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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