Edited by Giuseppe Tortora.
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Socrates is not similar to any man, especially for his speeches
Yeah. Socrates and there would be many other extraordinary things (thaumasite) to say. More than one hundred other reasons to praise him (epainésai).
Alcibiades puts it simply. But, as he himself points out, are all things that Socrates still has in common with other men, temperance, fortitude, wisdom, courage and pure ... Indeed, to some examples, the qualities of an orator Pericles can be - sure! - To compare with those of Nestor or those of Antenor. And the virtues of Achilles, in fact, I do not characterized exclusively.
And then there is something that is proper, only to Socrates? There is a virtue for which he is not similar to anyone? There is a quality that detects and characterizes Socrates so that no one he may be confronted?
Alcibiades found it. After all has been mentioned at the beginning of his strange praise of the master. The speeches (hoi logo). This is what makes Socrates be a extra-ordinary, a-normal (ten atopían). As for speeches, he is not similar to any of the men nor the old nor the contemporary (TON NUN oúte oúte palaiôn ton). His art of discourse is worthy of all wonder what (Toute Axion Pantos thaúmatos)!
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