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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: passim.
Parrh. Doubtless, Socrates, there is a vast distinction between the
two.
At another time he entered the workshop of the sculptor Cleiton,[9]
and in course of conversation with him said:
[9] An unknown artist. Coraes conj. {Kleona}. Cf. Plin. xxxiv. 19;
Paus. v. 17, vi. 3. He excelled in portrait statues. See Jowett,
"Plato," iv.; "Laws," p. 123.
You have a gallery of handsome people here,[10] Cleiton, runners, and
wrestlers, and boxers, and pancratiasts--that I see and know; but how
do you give the magic touch of life to your creations, which most of
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