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[217c]

Socrates
In that case, stranger, do not refuse us the first favor we have asked; but just tell us this: Do you generally prefer to expound in a long uninterrupted speech of your own whatever you wish to explain to anyone, or do you prefer the method of questions? I was present once when Parmenides employed the latter method and carried on a splendid discussion. I was a young man then, and he was very old.

Stranger
The method of dialogue, Socrates, is easier


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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 773
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