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from clever fellows like you than
severity.”And he on hearing
this gave a great guffaw and laughed sardonically and said, “Ye
gods! here we have the well-known irony1 of Socrates, and I knew it and
predicted that when it came to replying you would refuse and dissemble and
do anything rather than answer any question that anyone asked
you.” “That's because you are wise, Thrasymachus, and so
you knew very well that if you asked a man how many are twelve,
1 Cf. Symposium 216 E, and Gomperz, Greek Thinkers iii. p. 277.
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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