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Socrates

Soc. Very good: then what is your intention regarding yourself? Will you remain as you are, or take some trouble?

Alcibiades

Alc. We must put our heads together, Socrates. And indeed, as soon as you speak, I take the point and agree. For the men who manage the city’s affairs, apart from a few, do strike me as uneducated.

Socrates

Soc. Then what does that mean? 5

Alcibiades

Alc. That if they were educated, I suppose anyone who undertook to contend against them would have to get some knowledge and practice first, as he would for a match with athletes: but now, seeing that these men have gone in for politics as amateurs, what need is there for me to practise and have the trouble of learning? For I am sure that my natural powers alone will give me an easy victory over them.

Socrates

Soc. Ho, ho, my good sir, what a thing to say! How unworthy of your looks and your other advantages!

Alcibiades

Alc. What is your meaning now, Socrates? What is the connection?

Socrates

Soc. I am grieved for you, and for my love.

Alcibiades

Alc. Why, pray? 10

Socrates

Soc. That you should expect your contest to be with the men we have here.

Alcibiades

Alc. Well, but with whom is it to be?