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And what is it that you yourself hope to become when you go to Protagoras ?To this he replied with a blush—for by then there was a glimmer of daylight by which I could see him quite clearly—If it is like the previous cases, obviously, to become a sophist.In Heaven's name, I said, would you not be ashamed to present yourself before the Greeks as a sophist?Yes, on my soul I should, Socrates, if I am to speak my real thoughts.Yet after all, Hippocrates, perhaps it is not this sort of learning that you expect to get from Protagoras, but rather the sort you had
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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