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Quotation from Euthydemus by Plato
“when he takes his medicine, a cartload of hellebore will not be too much for him”
Euthydemus, 299b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
One of the brothers' sophisms: if medicine is good for the sick, more must be better. Ctesippus replies that it would suit a patient as big as the statue at Delphi.
Citation: "when he takes his medicine, a cartload of hellebore will not be too much for him" — Plato, Euthydemus, 299b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-euthydemus-q6)
