Plato, Timaeus, Page 20c: Socrates is ready to receive

Socrates finishes explaining the bargain: they agreed to repay his feast of words today. Hermocrates answers that they have no excuse, and that they were already preparing yesterday.

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αὐτοὺςautoùsyourselvesεἰςeisforνῦνnŷnnowἀνταποδώσεινantapodṓseinwould repayμοιmoimeτὰtàtheτῶνtôn—λόγωνlógōnof speechesξένιαxéniahospitality,

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20c Socrates is ready to receive. Socrates: ...that you yourselves would repay me now with the hospitality of speeches. So…

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