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Θεαίτητος Plato

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Eucleides
EU. Just in from the country, Terpsion, or did you come some time ago?
Terpsion
TERP. Quite a while ago; and I was looking for you in the market-place and wondering that I could not find you.
Eucleides
EU. Well, you see, I was not in the city.
Terpsion
TERP. Where then?
Eucleides
EU. As I was going down to the harbor I met Theaetetus being carried to Athens from the camp at Corinth. 5
Terpsion
TERP. Alive or dead?
Eucleides
EU. Just barely alive; for he is suffering severely from wounds, and, worse than that, he has been taken with the sickness that has broken out in the army.
Terpsion
TERP. You mean the dysentery?
Eucleides
EU. Yes.
Terpsion
TERP. What a man he is who you say is in danger! 10
Eucleides
EU. A noble man, Terpsion, and indeed just now I heard some people praising him highly for his conduct in the battle.
Terpsion
TERP. That is not at all strange; it would have been much more remarkable if he had not so conducted himself. But why did he not stop here in Megara?
Eucleides
EU. He was in a hurry to get home; for I begged and advised him to stop, but he would not. So I went along with him, and as I was coming back I thought of Socrates and wondered at his prophetic gift, especially in what he said about him. For I think he met him a little before his own death, when Theaetetus was a mere boy, and as a result of acquaintance and conversation with him, he greatly admired his qualities. When I went to Athens he related to me the conversation he had with him, which was well worth hearing, and he said he would surely become a notable man if he lived.
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