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will have its perfect and definitive
organization1 only when such a guardian, who knows
these things, oversees it.”“Necessarily,” he said. “But you yourself,
Socrates, do you think that knowledge is the good or pleasure or something
else and different?” “What a man it is,” said
I; “you made it very plain2 long ago that you would not be
satisfied with what others think about it.” “Why, it
does not seem right to me either, Socrates,” he said,
“to be ready to state the opinions of others but not one's own
when one has occupied himself with the matter so long.3”
1 For the effect of the future perfect cf. 457 Bλελέξεται465 Aπροστετάξεται, Eurip.Heracleidae 980πεπράξεται.
2 For the personal construction 348 E, Isoc.To Nic.I. καταφανής is a variation in this idiom for δῆλος. Cf. also Theaet. 189 C, Symp. 221 B, Charm. 162 C, etc.
3 Cf. 367 D-E.
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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