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“Do you hear that, my son?” asked Lycon.“Yes, indeed he does,” said Socrates; “and he puts it into practice, too. At any rate, when he desired to become a prize-winner in the pancratium, [he availed himself of your help to discover the champions in that sport and associated with them; and so, if he desires to learn the ways of virtue,]1 he will again with your help seek out the man who seems to him most proficient in this way of life and will associate with him.”
1 The words in brackets are meant to represent approximately the sense of words that have been lost in the manuscripts.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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