Opening Statesman — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Well, Theodorus, I owe you a great debt of gratitude for the acquaintance of Theaetetus, and of the stranger too. And yet, Socrates, you will soon be three times more grateful once they have completed the statesman for you, and the philosopher too. What is this, Theodorus? Are we to say that we have heard our supreme reasoner and geometrician expressing the matter in this way? In what way, Socrates? By assigning equal worth to each of the men when they stand so far apart in value that they are completely out of the proportion that your skill deals with. By our god Ammon, Socrates, you have rebuked me nicely, and with justification, for the error in the calculations, and you demonstrated your excellent memory in the process. I'll get back to you on these issues some other time. As for you, stranger, you should never tire of gratifying us, and whether you prefer to take the man who is a …
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