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and pretending that I was talking sense when I was not.Hippias
What man is that?Socrates
Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, who would no more permit me to say these things carelessly without investigation than to say that I know what I do not know.Hippias
But certainly I also, now that you have mentioned it, think that this about the laws is something different.Socrates
Not too fast, Hippias; for very likely we have fallen into the same perplexity about the beautiful in which we were a while ago, although we think we have found another way out.Hippias
What do you mean by that, Socrates?Socrates
I will tell you what presents itself to me, if perhaps there may be some sense in it.
What man is that?Socrates
Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, who would no more permit me to say these things carelessly without investigation than to say that I know what I do not know.Hippias
But certainly I also, now that you have mentioned it, think that this about the laws is something different.Socrates
Not too fast, Hippias; for very likely we have fallen into the same perplexity about the beautiful in which we were a while ago, although we think we have found another way out.Hippias
What do you mean by that, Socrates?Socrates
I will tell you what presents itself to me, if perhaps there may be some sense in it.
