The next point which requires to be made clear to anyone who wishes to
discover how things really happened, is the reason why it came about that I
did not continue my teaching in a second and third lesson and yet oftener.
Does Dionysios, after a single lesson, believe himself to know the matter, and
has he an adequate knowledge of it, either as having discovered it for himself
or learnt it before from others, or does he believe my teaching to be
worthless, or, thirdly, to be beyond his range and too great for him, and
himself to be really unable to live as one who gives his mind to wisdom and
virtue? For if he thinks it worthless, he will have to contend with many who
say the opposite, and who would be held in far higher repute as judges than
Dionysios, if on the other hand, he thinks he has discovered or learnt the
things and that they are worth having as part of a liberal education, how
could he, unless he is an extraordinary person, have so recklessly dishonoured
the master who has led the way in these subjects? How he dishonoured him, I
will now state.
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