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[323a] where they should be guided throughout by justice and good sense, they naturally allow advice from everybody, since it is held that everyone should partake of this excellence, or else that states cannot be. This, Socrates, is the explanation of it. And that you may not think you are mistaken, to show how all men verily believe that everyone partakes of justice and the rest of civic virtue, I can offer yet a further proof. In all other excellences, as you say, when a man professes to be good at flute-playing or any other art in which he has no such skill, they either laugh him to scorn or are annoyed with him, and his people come and reprove him for being so mad:


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  • Commentary references to this page (6):
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 213D
    • James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras, 325a
    • James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras, 327a
    • James A. Towle, Commentary on Plato: Protagoras, 329c
    • J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XIII
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    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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