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[120d] if you feared them and thought them terrible, or if you did not?

Alcibiades
Clearly, if I thought them terrible.

Socrates
And do you think you will come to any harm by taking pains over yourself?

Alcibiades
By no means; rather that I shall get much benefit.

Socrates
And on this single count that notion1 of yours is so much to the bad.

Alcibiades
True.

Socrates
Then, in the second place, observe the probability that it is false.

Alcibiades
How so?

Socrates
Is it probable that noble races should produce


1 i.e. about the Spartan generals and the Persian king, Plat. Alc.1 120c.

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