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[195d] Homer it is who tells of Ate as both divine and delicate; you recollect those delicate feet of hers, where he says—“Yet delicate are her feet, for on the ground
She speeds not, only on the heads of men.
”1 So I hold it convincing proof of her delicacy that she goes not on hard things but on soft.


1 Hom. Il. 19.92-93

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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