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We will beg Homer and the other poets
not to be angry if we cancel those and all similar passages, not that they
are not poetic and pleasing1 to most hearers, but because
the more poetic they are the less are they suited to the ears of boys and
men who are destined to be free and to be more afraid of slavery than of
death.” “By all means.”“Then we must further taboo in these matters the
entire vocabulary of terror and fear, Cocytus2
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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