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Tell us, and without scruple.Athenian
My good Clinias, I have had, it would seem, a stroke of luck.Clinias
How so?Athenian
In the fact that I am not wholly at a loss for a pattern. For in looking back now at the discussions which we have been pursuing from dawn up to this present hour—and that, as I fancy, not without some guidance from Heaven—it appeared to me that they were framed exactly like a poem. And it was not surprising, perhaps,
My good Clinias, I have had, it would seem, a stroke of luck.Clinias
How so?Athenian
In the fact that I am not wholly at a loss for a pattern. For in looking back now at the discussions which we have been pursuing from dawn up to this present hour—and that, as I fancy, not without some guidance from Heaven—it appeared to me that they were framed exactly like a poem. And it was not surprising, perhaps,
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