[341b]
, failing stealth, you are not of the force1 to beat me in
debate.” “Bless your soul,” said I,
“I wouldn't even attempt such a thing. But that nothing of the
sort may spring up between us again, define in which sense you take the
ruler and stronger. Do you mean the so-called ruler2 or
that ruler in the precise sense of whom you were just now telling us, and
for whose advantage as being the superior it will be just for the inferior
to act?” “I mean the ruler in the very most precise
sense of the word,” he said. “Now bring on against this
your cavils and your shyster's tricks if you are able.
1 Cf. 365 D.
2 i.e., the one who in vulgar parlance is so; cf. τῷ ῥήματι, Plat. Rep. 340d.
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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