Full Idea
Socrates: If I'd attended Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, I could tell you the truth about names straightway, but as I've only heard the one-drachma course, I don't know the truth about it.
Gist of Idea
For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course
Source
Socrates (reports of career [c.420 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Cratylus 384b
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.102
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