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At a certain point in Gorgias Socrates refers to his interlocutor under the title of “Callicles the Acharnian,” identifying him by his deme, and in turn Callicles calls him “Socrates of Alopece.” Why?  —Along the way there will be an argument for an early occurrence of the sense of a Greek word.

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