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Thus, then, we must do,—you must brace yourself in the effort to learn the argument, and I to expound it as best I can. But, first of all, I have a preliminary observation to make: our city, Athens, is, in the general opinion of the Greeks, both fond of talk and full of talk, but Lacedaemon is scant of talk, while Crete is more witty1 than wordy;
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(1):
- J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER X
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(2):
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, Isoc. 4 47
- Plato, Laws, Plat. Laws 10.901d
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- LSJ, ἀμφισ-βητέω
- LSJ, βρα^χυ?́-λογος
- LSJ, φι^λόλογ-ος
- LSJ, πολύ-λογος
- LSJ, πολύ-νοια
- LSJ, πολυ-λογία
- LSJ, συντείνω