[414d]
“Say on,” said he, “and
don't be afraid.” “Very well, I will. And yet I hardly
know how to find the audacity or the words to speak and undertake to
persuade first the rulers themselves and the soldiers and then the rest of
the city, that in good sooth1 all our training and educating of them were things
that they imagined and that happened to them as it were in a dream; but that
in reality at that time they were down within the earth being molded and
fostered themselves while
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