[408e]
and if they themselves had suffered all diseases and
were not of very healthy constitution. For you see they do not treat the
body by the body.1 If they did, it would not be allowable for their bodies
to be or to have been in evil condition. But they treat the body with the
mind—and it is not competent for a mind that is or has been evil
to treat anything well.” “Right,” he said.
“But a judge, mark you, my friend,
1 Cf. Gorgias 465 C-D.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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