Socrates’s rudest moment?

December 10, 2009

SOCRATES: In fact, Theatetus, you are handsome, not ugly as Theodorus said you were…

(Theodorus is there listening, and had in fact said that behind Theatetus’s back at the beginning of the dialogue. Something along the lines of: “Luckily, Theatetus is ugly, so I can praise him extensively without being accused of being in love with him.”)

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