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 1 Text|         therefore, Alcibiades, if we say that all who are senseless
 2 Text|            SOCRATES: The latter will say or do what they ought not
 3 Text|             Pal.).)~In my opinion, I say, the poet spoke both well
 4 Text|              if you have anything to say in answer to him, speak
 5 Text|            than either you or I will say that we have no right to
 6 Text|          towards your mother as they say that Orestes and Alcmeon
 7 Text|            we intend either to do or say anything, suppose that we
 8 Text|              so confidently to do or say?~ALCIBIADES: Yes, in my
 9 Text|             SOCRATES:—Such an one, I say, we should call wise and
10 Text|         confidently propose to do or say?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
11 Text|        gainers?~ALCIBIADES: What you say is very true.~SOCRATES:
12 Text| Lacedaemonians?’ ‘We,’ (they were to say,) ‘offer them more and finer
13 Text|         consider well what we should say and what leave unsaid. Homer,
14 Text|       proffer. Euripides makes Creon say in the play, when he beholds