But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp’d manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason,1 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
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Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 112.
Note 1. Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule…as making the worse appear the better reason.—Diogenes Laertius: Socrates, v. [back]
