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Logic IV. 150

But in the year 367 B.C. Dionysius the younger acceded to the throne of Syracuse; and Plato had overpowering reasons for [repairing?] to his court without procrastination. While there, he would hear how Aristotle was making a sensation in the school by his arguments about ideas; and he would feel that it belonged to him to lose no time in taking [cognizance?] of the situation. This it would happen that the thought which forms the matter of the Parmenides is not as thoroughly digested as in most of the dialogies, and although, if the reader may trust his impressions, the manner of the youthful Aristotle in such a [role?] as he assumes in the Parminedes is accurately [?] off, yet the writing out of the dialogue, a matter upon which Plato had been accustomed to work with [file and buffer?] for long periods, is there decidedly hasty. Upon consideration, Plato could not but perceive that no