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over the bodily appetites and pleasures
of food, drink, and the rest?” “I think so.”
“Then, I take it, we will think well said such sayings as that of
Homer's Diomede:“
Friend, sit down and be silent and hark to the word of
my bidding,
”Hom. Il. 4.4121and what follows:“
Breathing high spirit the Greeks marched silently
fearing their captains,
”Hom. Il. 3.82
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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