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and then turn and strike the one who
came up first, and if he repeated the procedure many times under a burning
and stifling sun? Would not such a fighter down even a number of such
opponents?” “Doubtless,” he said;
“it wouldn't be surprising if he did.” “Well,
don't you think that the rich have more of the skill and practice1 of boxing than of the art of war?” “I
do,” he said. “It will be easy, then, for our athletes
in all probability to fight with double and triple their number.”
“I shall have to concede the point,”
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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