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"Socrates was the wisest man in Athens."
Dude, the population of Athens and it's surrounding territory at the time was about 200k-250k people, a very sizable portion of which were foreigners who probably had a different primary language, and even more of which were slaves (like 1/3 to 1/2 of the entire population). Would be like talking about the wisest person in Dayton, Ohio 2500 years later in every philosophy textbook in the world becuase he realized it was better to say "I dunno" than to talk out of your ass.
If Plato is accurate then I don't know if he didn't talk out of his ass.
Much like another wise man.