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without sufficient
examination, and failed to observe that it involved the fate of eating his
own children, and other horrors, and that when he inspected it at leisure he
beat his breast and bewailed his choice, not abiding by the forewarning of
the prophet. For he did not blame himself1 for his woes, but fortune and the gods and anything except
himself. He was one of those who had come down from heaven, a man who had
lived in a well-ordered polity in his former existence,
1 Cf. What Plato Said, p. 532, on Phaedo 90 D.
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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