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Socrates
Then the Lacedaemonians in not giving you money and entrusting their sons to you , act contrary to law.

Hippias
I agree to that; for you seem to be making your argument in my favour, and there is no need of my opposing it.

Socrates
Then my friends, we find that the Lacedaemonians are law-breakers, and that too in the most important affairs—they who are regarded as the most law-abiding of men. But then, for Heaven's sake, Hippias, what sort of discourses are those for which they applaud you and which they enjoy hearing?


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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