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'Oh, yes, Ariston's son, the lad who talks like a prince. I've not seen him since.' - 'You'll be seeing him soon; he's going to the Games with us, to wrestle in the boys' class.' - 'You were right, then, when you said he would be heard of again.' - 'Yes, and I fancy his chances too, unless another city puts up someone outstanding. He was born for a wrestler, it's stamped all over him, too clearly indeed for grace...
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I looked at his fine shoulders, flat and wide without being too heavy, and resolved to spend more time with the disk and javelin. Even now, though the rising generation seems to think nothing of it, I cannot bear to see a runner gone all to legs, looking as if he would be fit for nothing, when off the track, except to get away from a battlefield faster than anyone else.
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I could think of no answer to this, so I said, 'Father told you I wasn't to hear the sophists: Sokrates is a philosopher.' - 'Any sophist,' said Midas sniffing, 'is a philosopher to his friends.'
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They have a nickname for him now in the palaestra; they all call him Plato.'
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