Plato : ALCIBIADES (I) Persons of the dialogue: Socrates - Alcibiades Translated by Benjamin Jowett - 50 Pages - Greek fonts Search Plato's works / Plato Anthology / The Greek Word Library = Note by Elpenor

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Soc.: You mean that about them we should have recourse to horsemen?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Well, naval affairs?

Alc.: No.

Soc.: You mean that we should have recourse to sailors about them?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Then what affairs? And who do them?

Alc.: The affairs which occupy Athenian gentlemen.

Soc.: And when you speak of gentlemen, do you mean the wise or the unwise?

Alc.: The wise.

Soc.: And a man is good in respect of that in which he is wise?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: And evil in respect of that in which he is unwise?

Alc.: Certainly.

Soc.: The shoemaker, for example, is wise in respect of the making of shoes?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Then he is good in that?

Alc.: He is.

Soc.: But in respect of the making of garments he is unwise?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Then in that he is bad?

Alc.: Yes.

Soc.: Then upon this view of the matter the same man is good and also bad?

Alc.: True.

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