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Quotation from Meno by Plato
“you seem to me both in your appearance and in your power over others to be very like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him and touch him”
Meno, 80a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Reduced to perplexity, Meno jokingly compares Socrates to the electric ray that numbs anyone who touches it.
Citation: "you seem to me both in your appearance and in your power over others to be very like the flat torpedo fish, who torpifies those who come near him and touch him" — Plato, Meno, 80a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q3)
