Plato, Gorgias, section 521b

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[521b]

Socrates
So it is to a flatterer's work, most noble sir, that you invite me?

Callicles
Work for a mean Mysian,¹ if you prefer the name, Socrates; for unless you do as I say—

Socrates
Do not tell me, what you have so often repeated, that anyone who pleases will put me to death, lest I on my side should have to tell you that it will be a villain killing a good man; nor that anyone may strip me of whatever I have,

1 The Mysians, like the Carians (cf. Euthydemus 285 C), were regarded as the lowest of the low. Callicles heatedly taunts Socrates with putting the matter in its worst light.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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