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Phaedrus. You mean making a summary of the points of the speech at the end of it, so as to remind the hearers of what has been said?
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Socrates. These are the things I mean, these and anything else you can mention concerned with the art of rhetoric.
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Phaedrus. There are only little things, not worth mentioning.
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Socrates. Never mind the little things; let us bring these other things more under the light and see what force of art they have and when.
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Phaedrus. They have a very powerful force, at least in large assemblies.
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Socrates. They have; but my friend, see if you agree with me in thinking that their warp has gaps in it.
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Phaedrus. Go on and show them.
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Socrates. Tell me; if anyone should go to your friend Eryximachus or to his father Acumenus and should say I know how to apply various drugs to people, so as to make them warm or, if I wish, cold, and I can make them vomit, if I like, or can make their bowels move, and all that sort of thing; and because of this knowledge I claim that I am a physician and can make any other man a physician, to whom I impart the knowledge of these things; what do you think they would say?
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Phaedrus. They would ask him, of course, whether he knew also whom he ought to cause to do these things, and when, and how much.
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Socrates. If then he should say: No, not at all; but I think that he who has learned these things from me will be able to do by himself the things you ask about?
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Phaedrus. They would say, I fancy, that the man was crazy and, because he had read something in a book or had stumbled upon some medicines, imagined that he was a physician when he really had no knowledge of the art.
