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[243e] of course be compelled by me to write another discourse on the same subject.

Socrates
I believe you, so long as you are what you are.

Phaedrus
Speak then without fear.

Socrates
Where is the youth to whom I was speaking? He must hear this also, lest if he do not hear it, he accept a non-lover before we can stop him.

Phaedrus
Here he is, always close at hand whenever you want him.

Socrates
Understand then, fair youth,


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