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Quotation from Theaetetus by Plato
“But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing him to expatiate at will”
Theaetetus, Digression, c. 172d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The courtroom speaker, timed by the water-clock, is contrasted with the philosopher's leisure.
Citation: "But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing him to expatiate at will" — Plato, Theaetetus, Digression, c. 172d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-theaetetus-q8)
