Thrasymachus is willing to attribute to the unjust man power or virtue, but he isunwilling to identify complete unjustice with wisdom or prudence (phronesis).
Essentially, punters who played the placecards — usually in a local pub — had to pick a placegetter in each of the four feature races on a Saturday. So, if it was races five, seven and eight, you had to correctly select just one of the three placegetters in each race to win.
So after all this hurry and hustle in the house, the coffee and papers and phonings, the soundings and measurements over the whole place, I was instructed to take off my apron and sit down […]
The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation (I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble, quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.
