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the one that the gods make the oaks bear for
the just: “‘Acorns on topmost
branches and swarms of bees on their mid-trunks,’ and he tells
how the ‘Flocks of the fleece-bearing sheep are laden and
weighted with soft wool,’”Hes. WD
232ff. and of many other blessings akin to these; and similarly the
other poet:“
Even as when a good king, who rules in the fear of the
high gods,
Upholds justice and right, and the black earth yields him her
foison,
”
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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