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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: Socrates judged him to be wise at once and sound of soul (or
temperate).[4]
[3] But cf. IV. vi. 7; K. Joel, op. cit. p. 363.
[4] Reading {alla to . . . kai to}, or more lit. "he discovered the
wise man and sound of soul in his power not only to recognise
things 'beautiful and good,' but to live and move and have his
being in them; as also in his gift of avoiding consciously things
base." Or if {alla ton . . . kai ton . . .} transl. "The man who
not only could recognise the beautiful and good, but lived, etc.,
in that world, and who morever consciously avoided things base, in
the judgment of Socrates was wise and sound of soul." Cf. Plat.
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