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İngilizce Yunanca

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Alcibiades

Alc. By no means; rather that I shall get much benefit.

Socrates

Soc. And on this single count that notion i.e. about the Spartan generals and the Persian king, Plat. Alc.1 120c. of yours is so much to the bad.

Alcibiades

Alc. True. 15

Socrates

Soc. Then, in the second place, observe the probability that it is false.

Alcibiades

Alc. How so?

Socrates

Soc. Is it probable that noble races should produce better natures, or not?

Alcibiades

Alc. Clearly, noble races would.

Socrates

Soc. And will not the well-born, provided they are well brought up, probably be perfected in virtue? 20

Alcibiades

Alc. That must be so.

Socrates

Soc. Then let us consider, by comparing our lot with theirs, whether the Spartan and Persian kings appear to be of inferior birth. Do we not know that the former are descendants of Hercules and the latter of Achaemenes, and that the line of Hercules and the line of Achaemenes go back to Perseus, son of Zeus?

Alcibiades

Alc. Yes, and mine, Socrates, to Eurysaces, and that of Eurysaces to Zeus!