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[91b] Now tell me, to whom ought we properly to send him for lessons in this virtue? Or is it clear enough, from our argument just now, that he should go to these men who profess to be teachers of virtue and advertise themselves as the common teachers of the Greeks, and are ready to instruct anyone who chooses in return for fees charged on a fixed scale?

Anytus
To whom are you referring, Socrates?

Socrates
Surely you know as well as anyone; they are the men whom people call sophists.


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