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Hesiod would say he was of that golden race?Hermogenes
Quite likely.Socrates
But the good are the wise, are they not?Hermogenes
Yes, they are the wise.Socrates
This, then, I think, is what he certainly means to say of the spirits: because they were wise and knowing (δαήμονες) he called them spirits (δαίμονες) and in the old form of our language the two words are the same. Now he and all the other poets are right, who say that when a good man dies
Quite likely.Socrates
But the good are the wise, are they not?Hermogenes
Yes, they are the wise.Socrates
This, then, I think, is what he certainly means to say of the spirits: because they were wise and knowing (δαήμονες) he called them spirits (δαίμονες) and in the old form of our language the two words are the same. Now he and all the other poets are right, who say that when a good man dies