1 Cf. Laws 789 B-C.
2 The riddling question to which the response is “what?” is a mannerism derived from tragedy, which becomes very frequent in the later style of the Sophist, Politicus and Philebus.
3 This commonplace of stirpiculture or eugenics, as it is now called, begins with Theognis 184, and has thus far got no further.
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