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enters upon his
customary way of life, regains his health, and lives attending to his
affairs—or, if his body is not equal to strain, he dies and is
freed from all his troubles.1” “For such a man,” he said,
“that appears to be the right use of medicine.”
“And is not the reason,” I said,
1 This alone marks the humor of the whole passage, which Macaulay's Essay on Bacon seems to miss. Cf. Aristophanes Acharnians 757;Apology 41 D.
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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