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 1 Intro|     oracle if there was any man wiser than Socrates; and the answer
 2 Intro|      was, that there was no man wiser. What could be the meaning
 3 Intro|         refute it by finding ‘a wiser;’ and first he went to the
 4 Intro|      the vain hope of finding a wiser man than himself. Yet this
 5 Text |     tell him whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian
 6 Text | answered, that there was no man wiser. Chaerephon is dead himself;
 7 Text |         I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might
 8 Text |      him, ‘Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said
 9 Text |         wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon
10 Text |       less esteemed were really wiser and better. I will tell
11 Text |        this they certainly were wiser than I was. But I observed
12 Text |         may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are:—that whereas