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[418b] in the case of the word δέον (obligation, right), for that just occurred to me and I was reminded of it by what I was going to say to you, that this fine modern language of ours has turned δέον and also ζημιῶδες round, so that each has the opposite of its original meaning, whereas the ancient language shows clearly the real sense of both words.

Hermogenes
What do you mean?

Socrates
I will tell you. You know that our ancestors made good use of the sounds of iota and delta,


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