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I ask no quarter. But you'll find yourself
unable.” “Why, do you suppose,” I said,
“that I am so mad to try to try to beard a lion1 and
try the pettifogger on Thrasymachus?” “You did try it
just now,” he said, “paltry fellow though you
be.”2“Something too much3 of this sort of thing,”
said I. “But tell me, your physician in the precise sense of whom
you were just now speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a
healer of the sick? And remember to speak of the physician who is really
such.” “A healer of the sick,” he replied.
“And what of the lot—the pilot rightly so
called—is he a ruler of sailors or a sailor?”
1 A rare but obvious proverb. Cf. Schol. ad loc. and Aristides, Orat. Plat. ii. p. 143.
2 καὶ ταῦτα=idque, normally precedes (cf. 404 C, 419 E, etc.). But Thrasymachus is angry and the whole phrase is short. Commentators on Aristophanes Wasps 1184, Frogs 704, and Acharn. 168 allow this position. See my note in A.J.P. vol. xvi. p. 234. Others: “though you failed in that too.”
3 Cf. 541 B, Euthyphro 11 E, Charmides 153 D.
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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