‘Just as in battle’: The simile of the rout in Aristotle’s ...

Butler, Travis, ‘Empeiria in Aristotle’, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 41 (2003), 329-351. ... Plato (at Symposium 221b) and Plutarch (in his Life of Alcibiades 7.4) describe how Socrates succeeded in keeping his attackers at bay during a retreat, but they do not credit him with stemming a rout by causing others to turn and take a stand. ................
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