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[627c]

Clinias
This statement is indeed most extraordinary, Stranger; none the less we cannot possibly reject it.

Athenian
Stay a moment: here too is a case we must further consider. Suppose there were a number of brothers, all sons of the same parents, it would not be at all surprising if most of them were unjust and but few just.

Clinias
It would not.

Athenian
And, moreover, it would ill beseem you and me to go a-chasing after this form of expression, that if the bad ones conquered the whole of this family and house should be called “self-inferior,”

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