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Alcibiades
Apparently.Socrates
Then, to quote Euripides,1 the result is, Alcibiades, that you may be said to have “heard it from yourself, not me,
”Eur. Hipp. 352 and it is not I who say it, but you, and you tax me with it in vain. And indeed what you say is quite true. For it is a mad scheme this, that you meditate, my excellent friend—of teaching things that you do not know, since you have taken no care to learn them.
Apparently.Socrates
Then, to quote Euripides,1 the result is, Alcibiades, that you may be said to have “heard it from yourself, not me,
”Eur. Hipp. 352 and it is not I who say it, but you, and you tax me with it in vain. And indeed what you say is quite true. For it is a mad scheme this, that you meditate, my excellent friend—of teaching things that you do not know, since you have taken no care to learn them.