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Consequently, it is allimportant in this connexion to consider whether the
simile is really applicable. So in answering those
Socratic questions which I mentioned above,1 the
greatest care must be taken to avoid giving an incautious answer, such as those given by the wife of
Xenophon to Aspasia in the dialogue of Aeschines
the Socratic: the passage is translated by Cicero2 as
follows:
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