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A MILD REMEDY FOR A MILD DISEASE: THE TEXT OF REPUBLIC 459B

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Tad Brennan*
Affiliation:
Cornell University

Extract

Here's a fine argument for you!

  1. 1) Anyone who plans to prescribe medicines will need to be a skilled doctor;

  2. 2) These people plan to prescribe medicines;

  3. 3) Therefore, these people will need to be skilled rulers.

If you expected the last word of the conclusion to be ‘doctors’ instead of ‘rulers’, then you will find the rest of this note plain sailing.

Type
Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 2016 

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References

1 Thanks to Charles Brittain and Hayden Pelliccia, φιλόλογοι ἄκροι, for their encouragement. And, as always, my deepest thanks go to Liz Karns.