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Socrates
There again, Alcibiades, do you see how unfairly you speak?Alcibiades
In what ?Socrates
In stating that I say so.Alcibiades
Why, do you not say that l do not know about the just and unjust?Socrates
Not at all.Alcibiades
Well, do I say it?Socrates
Yes.Alcibiades
How, pray ?Socrates
I will show you, in the following way. If I ask you which is the greater number, one or two, you will answer “two”?Alcibiades
Yes, I shall.Socrates
How much greater?Alcibiades
By one.Socrates
Then which of us says that two are one more than one?Alcibiades
I.Socrates
And I was asking, and you were answering?Alcibiades
Yes.
There again, Alcibiades, do you see how unfairly you speak?Alcibiades
In what ?Socrates
In stating that I say so.Alcibiades
Why, do you not say that l do not know about the just and unjust?Socrates
Not at all.Alcibiades
Well, do I say it?Socrates
Yes.Alcibiades
How, pray ?Socrates
I will show you, in the following way. If I ask you which is the greater number, one or two, you will answer “two”?Alcibiades
Yes, I shall.Socrates
How much greater?Alcibiades
By one.Socrates
Then which of us says that two are one more than one?Alcibiades
I.Socrates
And I was asking, and you were answering?Alcibiades
Yes.