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[462d] what I say it is, that you ask what should follow that—whether I do not take it to be fine?

Polus
Why, did I not hear you call it a certain habitude?

Socrates
Then please—since you value “gratification”—be so good as gratify me in a small matter.

Polus
I will.

Socrates
Ask me now what art I take cookery to be.

Polus
Then I ask you, what art is cookery ?

Socrates
None at all, Polus.

Polus
Well, what is it ? Tell me.


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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 7
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