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nor ““clutching with both hands the sooty dust and strewing it
over his head,””1 nor as weeping and lamenting in
the measure and manner attributed to him by the poet; nor yet Priam,2 near kinsman of the gods, making supplication and
rolling in the dung,“
Calling aloud unto each, by name to each man
appealing.
”Hom. Il. 22.414-415And yet more than this
shall we beg of them at least not to describe the gods as lamenting and
crying,
1 When he heard of Patroclus's death.
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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