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to the treatment of a man who, as you say, is a sophist; and as to what a sophist really is, I shall be surprised if you can tell me. And yet, if you are ignorant of this, you cannot know to whom you are entrusting your soul,—whether it is to something good or to something evil.
I really think, he said, that I know.
Then tell me, please, what you consider a sophist to be.
I should say, he replied, from what the name implies, that he is one who has knowledge of wise matters.
Well, I went on, we are able to say this of painters also, and of carpenters,—that they are the persons who have knowledge of wise matters;
