Dialogue

 1 Repub|          in time of sickness? ~The physician. ~Or when they are on a
 2 Repub| Polemarchus, there is no need of a physician? ~No. ~And he who is not
 3 Repub|       mistaken about the sick is a physician in that he is mistaken?
 4 Repub|     mistake? True, we say that the physician or arithmetician or grammarian
 5 Repub|         ask you a question: Is the physician, taken in that strict sense
 6 Repub|           now speaking of the true physician. ~A healer of the sick,
 7 Repub|              Then, I continued, no physician, in so far as he is a physician,
 8 Repub|    physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers his own good
 9 Repub|          his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the
10 Repub|         began by defining the true physician in an exact sense, you did
11 Repub|          same sort of thing of the physician? ~Yes. ~And do you think,
12 Repub|          what would you say of the physician? In prescribing meats and
13 Repub|          wish to go beyond another physician or beyond the practice of
14 Repub|          care of the sick, and the physician's art; also the various
15 Repub|          like the skilful pilot or physician, who knows intuitively his
16 Repub|            bodily illnesses to the physician or to the trainer, or for
17 Repub|            whether he be priest or physician or carpenter," ~he will
18 Repub|       carpenter is ill he asks the physician for a rough and ready cure;
19 Repub|            good-by to this sort of physician, he resumes his ordinary
20 Repub|        argued, for example, that a physician and one who is in mind a
21 Repub|           and one who is in mind a physician may be said to have the
22 Repub|        nature. ~True. ~Whereas the physician and the carpenter have different
23 Repub|            be rich or poor, to the physician he must go, and he who wants
24 Repub|          to the body. And the good physician and lawgiver of the State