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İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

23 Ion and Dinomachus and Cleodemus and the rest of them drank down every word. The narrator led them by their. venerable noses, and this least convincing of colossal bogies,. this hundred-yarder, was the object of their mute adorations. And these (I was reflecting all the time)—these are the admired teachers from whom our youth are to learn wisdom! Two circumstances distinguish them from babies: they have white hair, and they have beards: but when it comes to swallowing a lie, they are babes and more than babes.