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[132e] we can see both it and ourselves.

Alcibiades
Why, clearly, Socrates, mirrors and things of that sort.

Socrates
Quite right. And there is also something of that sort in the eye that we see with?

Alcibiades
To be sure.

Socrates
And have you observed that the face of the person who looks into another's eye is shown in the optic confronting him,


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