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Ath. so, lest it make you faint and dizzy as it rushes past and poses you with questions you are unused to answering,Cp. Plat. Laws 886b. and thus causes an unpleasing lack of shapeliness and seemliness, I think that I ought now to act in the way described—question myself first, while you remain listening in safety, and then return answer to myself, and in this way proceed through the whole argument until it has discussed in full the subject of soul, and demonstrated that soul is prior to body.Cp. Plat. Laws 896b, Plat. Laws 896c.
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Clin. Your suggestion, Stranger, we think excellent; so do as you suggest.
