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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: the simplest and plainest manner initiated him into everything which
he held to be needful to know or important to practise.
[59] Or, "as people of dull intelligence and sluggish temperament."
Cf. Plat. "Gorg." 488 A.
III
It may be inferred that Socrates was in no hurry for those who were
with him to discover capacities for speech and action or as inventive
geniuses,[1] without at any rate a well-laid foundation of self-
control.[2] For those who possessed such abilities without these same
saving virtues would, he believed, only become worse men with greater
power for mischief. His first object was to instil into those who were
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