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Gorgias
Plato · c. 380 BCE · translated by W. R. M. Lamb
Rhetoric on trial. Is it better to suffer wrong than to do it? Callicles says that is a slave’s answer.
36,945 words · 21 pages · about 2 h 48 min of reading
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