[621a]
And after it had passed through that, when the others
also had passed, they all journeyed to the Plain of Oblivion,1
through a terrible and stifling heat, for it was bare of trees and all
plants, and there they camped at eventide by the River of
Forgetfulness,2 whose waters no vessel can contain. They were all required to
drink a measure of the water, and those who were not saved by their good
sense drank more than the measure, and each one as he drank forgot all
things.
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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