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58 I think that you must take away the first wine you come to that is good and satisfactory.

58 Certainly.

58 Could you have said from that brief tasting what was the quality of the whole?

58 Yes.

58 If you had approached the wine-merchants and said: “I wish to buy half a pint of wine; each of you give me, please, the whole jar to drink, so that when I have drained it all I may learn who has the better wine and who is to receive my custom”—if you had said this, do you not think that they would have laughed at you, and if you troubled them further, you might have had a jug of water poured on you?

58 I do think so, and I should deserve it.

58 Apply the same consideration to philosophy. Why drain a butt when the tasting of a little can indicate the quality of the whole?

59 How slippery you are, Hermotimus! And how you glide through my fingers! But you have helped us: you thought you had got away, but you have fallen into the same net.

59 What do you mean?