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    Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno

    Gorgias: Socrates

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    [463c] I assign rhetoric; but without noticing that I have not yet answered that, he proceeds to ask whether I do not consider it a fine thing. But I am not going to reply to the question whether I consider rhetoric a fine or a base thing, until I have first answered what it is; for it would not be fair, Polus: but if you want the information, ask me what sort of branch of flattery I assert rhetoric to be.

    Polus

    I ask you then; so answer, what sort of branch it is.

    Socrates

    Now, will you understand when I answer? Rhetoric,


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    Further comments from Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias:
    section 463c: kommôtikê
    section 463c: ei ou
    section 463c: 14
    section 463c: apokrinoumai . . . prin an apokrinômai

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
    OCLC: 384709, 377367
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