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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
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brings against him.
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In this play, Socrates is presented as the head, the leader,
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the director of what we might think of as the first think tank
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known to human history.