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and shortly after Polemarchus came up and
Adeimantus, the brother of Glaucon, and Niceratus, the son of Nicias, and a
few others apparently from the procession. Whereupon Polemarchus said,
“Socrates, you appear to have turned your faces townward and to be
going to leave us.” “Not a bad guess,” said I.
“But you see how many we are?” he said.
“Surely.” “You must either then prove
yourselves the better men1 or stay here.”
“Why, is there not left,” said I, “the
alternative of our persuading2 you that you ought
to let us go?” “But could you persuade us,”
said he, “if we refused to listen?”
“Nohow,” said Glaucon. “Well, we won't listen,
and you might as well make up your minds to it.” “Do you
mean to say,” interposed Adeimantus,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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