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and others, among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.
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The mockery, you might say, mockery of Socrates, remains one of
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the sincerest forms of flattery; they took him very seriously.
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Let me just say something about the Clouds,
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this comic play, this satire on Socrates,
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because it is part of that initial accusation that
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Socrates says is leveled against him.
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Here, Aristophanes presents Socrates as an investigator,
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and this is part of the first charge,
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remember an investigator of the things aloft and the things
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under the earth and who makes the weaker argument the stronger.
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That's the argument that Socrates says Aristophanes