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put on a good show, showing that his own perspective is
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not simply bound by that of a city.
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It suggests, from the beginning, a kind of loftiness and impartiality
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of perspective characteristic of the philosopher,
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but not necessarily the citizen.
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On their way back from this festival, from this carnival,
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on their way back they're accosted, you remember.
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They're accosted by a slave who's been sent on by Polemarchus
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and his friends and who orders Socrates and Glaucon to wait.
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"Polemarchus orders you to wait," the slave says.
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He orders you to wait.
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He is coming up behind you.