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But tell me, Pistias, he added,
why do you charge more for your breastplates than any other maker, though they are no stronger and cost no more to make?
>Because the proportions of mine are better, Socrates.
And how do you show their proportions when you ask a higher price — by weight or measure? For I presume you don’t make them all of the same weight or the same size, that is, if you make them to fit.
Fit? Why, of course! a breastplate is of no use without that!
>Because the proportions of mine are better, Socrates.
And how do you show their proportions when you ask a higher price — by weight or measure? For I presume you don’t make them all of the same weight or the same size, that is, if you make them to fit.
Fit? Why, of course! a breastplate is of no use without that!
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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