Plato, Phaedrus, section 259b

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[259b] perhaps they will be pleased and give us the gift which the gods bestowed on them to give to men.

Phaedrus
What is this gift? I don't seem to have heard of it.

Socrates
It is quite improper for a lover of the Muses never to have heard of such things. The story goes that these locusts were once men, before the birth of the Muses, and when the Muses were born and song appeared, some of the men were so overcome with delight

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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