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[860c]

Athenian
Thus it is that by the multitude the beautiful and the just are flung apart, and inconsistent language is used about them.

Clinias
It certainly seems so, Stranger.

Athenian
Then let us look again at our own view, and see how far it is consistent in this respect.

Clinias
What kind of consistency, and in respect of what, do you mean?

Athenian
I believe that I expressly stated1 in our previous discourse,—or, if I did not do it before, please assume that I now assert—

Clinias
What?

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