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And she displayed her own power to the poet Stesichorus1 also; for when, at the beginning of his ode, he spoke in disparagement of her, he arose deprived of his sight; but when he recognized the cause of his misfortune and composed the Recantation,2 as it is called, she restored to him his normal sight.
1 The famous lyric poet of Himera, in Sicily.
2 The well-known Palinode; for this legend and the fragment of the poem see Plat. Phaedrus 242a.
Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
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