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and
wailing as they recalled how many and how dreadful things they had suffered
and seen in their journey beneath the earth1—it lasted a thousand years2—while those from heaven related their delights
and visions of a beauty beyond words. To tell it all, Glaucon, would take
all our time, but the sum, he said, was this. For all the wrongs they had
ever done to anyone and all whom they had severally wronged they had paid
the penalty in turn tenfold for each, and the measure of this was by periods
of a hundred years each,3
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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