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Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno
Meno: Meno
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[97d] this being the case, that knowledge should ever be more prized than right opinion, and why they should be two distinct and separate things. Socrates
Well, do you know why it is that you wonder, or shall I tell you? Meno
Please tell me. Socrates
It is because you have not observed with attention the images of Daedalus.1 But perhaps there are none in your country. Meno
What is the point of your remark? Socrates
That if they are not fastened up they play truant and run away; but, if fastened, they stay where they are.
1 Cf. Plat. Euthyph. 11. Socrates pretends to believe the old legend according to which Daedalus, the first sculptor, contrived a wonderful mechanism in his statues by which they could move.
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Cross references from Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works:
2, 1, 1 [Daedalus]
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This text is based on the following book(s): 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 ISBN: 0674991834, 0674991842
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