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now, when did you ever hear of a man getting good
by temperance?”
Just. “Many. Peleus got a sword by it.”

Unjust. “ A sword indeed! and a nice thing it was
to him! And how many talents did Hyperbolus the
lamp-maker make by his villany? Plenty, to be sure,
but certainly not a sword.”

Just. “Then Peleus married the goddess Thetis.”

Unjust. “Who left him. No, no; this is the way
to lose all the pleasures of life; and without them is -
life worth living?” j

Just. “But how about the disgrace that will fall
upon you, if you follow these profligate ways?”

Unjust. “Nothing at all. Tell me, who are the
great advocates?”

Just. “The profligate.”

Unjust. “ And the successful tragedians?”

Just. “The profligate.”
Unjust. “ And the political leaders?”
Just. “The profligate.”

Unjust. “Well, what have you got to say.?”

Just. “Nothing, but that I am beaten, and that
I come over to your side.”
_ After this, of course, Strepsiades could do nothing
but hand over his gon to Socrates to be instructed
by him, receiving the assurance that he would be
returned to him an accomplished rhetorician, always
able to make the worse appear the better reason.

Meanwhile the time grew near when these powers