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Socrates
Soc. Because we should apply to seamen?
Socrates
Soc. Well, what sort of thing? The business of what men?
Alcibiades
Alc. Of Athenian gentlemen.
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Socrates
Soc. Do you mean by gentlemen the intelligent or the unintelligent?
Alcibiades
Alc. The intelligent.
Socrates
Soc. And everyone is good in that wherein he is intelligent?
Socrates
Soc. And bad wherein he is unintelligent?
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Alcibiades
Alc. Of course.
Socrates
Soc. Then is the shoemaker intelligent in the making of foot-gear?
Alcibiades
Alc. Certainly.
Socrates
Soc. So he is good in that article?
Socrates
Soc. Well now, is not the shoemaker unintelligent in the making of clothes?
Socrates
Soc. So he is bad in that?
Socrates
Soc. Then, on this showing, the same man is both bad and good.
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Alcibiades
Alc. Apparently.