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And do not make any such assumption as this,
that in speaking these words I am presumably offering to teach you any of these
branches myself, for I should feel no shame in saying that there is still much I
need myself to learn, and that I have chosen rather to be a contender in
political life than a teacher of the other arts.1 Not that in disavowing these subjects of instruction I am
impugning the reputation of those who have chosen the profession of sophist, but
my reason is that the truth of the matter happens to be as follows:
1 This self-characterization has been thought by some to point to Androtion as the author, but the grounds seem slight to Blass, p. 407 and note 2.
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