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[235e] not only of myself, but of you also.

Socrates
You are a darling and truly golden, Phaedrus, if you think I mean that Lysias has failed in every respect and that I can compose a discourse containing nothing that he has said. That, I fancy, could not happen even to the worst writer. For example, to take the subject of his speech, who do you suppose, in arguing that the non-lover ought to be more favored than the lover,


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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1211
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