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The reference seems to be to a passage in Plutarch's Alcibiades, where Phaeax is thus described: 'He seemed fitter for soliciting and persuading in private than for stemming the torrent of a public debate; in short, he was one of those of whom Eupolis says: "True he can talk, and yet he is no speaker." Langhome's Plutarch, ed. 1809, ii. 137.
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