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Stephanus 22a
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δοκοῦντας εἰδέναι. καὶ νὴ τὸν κύνα, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι— δεῖ γὰρ πρὸς ὑμᾶς τἀληθῆ λέγειν—ἦ μὴν ἐγὼ ἔπαθόν τι τοιοῦτον· οἱ μὲν μάλιστα εὐδοκιμοῦντες ἔδοξάν μοι ὀλίγου δεῖν τοῦ πλείστου ἐνδεεῖς εἶναι ζητοῦντι κατὰ τὸν θεόν, ἄλλοι δὲ δοκοῦντες φαυλότεροι ἐπιεικέστεροι εἶναι ἄνδρες πρὸς τὸ φρονίμως ἔχειν. δεῖ δὴ ὑμῖν τὴν ἐμὴν πλάνην ἐπιδεῖξαι ὥσπερ πόνους τινὰς πονοῦντος ἵνα μοι καὶ ἀνέλεγκτος ἡ μαντεία γένοιτο. μετὰ γὰρ τοὺς πολιτικοὺς ᾖα ἐπὶ τοὺς ποιητὰς τούς τε τῶν τραγῳδιῶν καὶ τοὺς τῶν
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And by the Dog, men of Athens—for I must tell you the truth—I truly had an experience of this sort: as I investigated in accordance with the god, those held in the highest esteem seemed to me to be, with few exceptions, the most deficient, while others, reputed to be inferior, seemed to be more sensible men. I must describe to you my wandering, as though I were performing certain labors, so that the oracle might prove irrefutable to me. After the politicians, I went to the poets—the writers of tragedies and dithyrambs and the
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And by the dog, men of Athens—for I must tell you the truth—I certainly had an experience something like this: those with the highest reputations seemed to me, as I investigated in accordance with the god, to be almost the most deficient, while others who were thought to be inferior seemed to be more sensible men. I must show you my wandering course, as though I were performing certain labors, so that the oracle might prove irrefutable to me. After the politicians, I went to the poets, those who wrote tragedies and dithyrambs and the others,