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With horses! I replied: That is a novelty. Will horsemen carry

torches and pass them one to another during the race?

Yes, said Polemarchus, and not only so, but a festival will be

celebrated at night, which you certainly ought to see. Let us

rise soon after supper and see this festival; there will be a

gathering of young men, and we will have a good talk. Stay then,

and do not be perverse.

Glaucon said: I suppose, since you insist, that we must.

Very good, I replied.