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and then there are the doings and sufferings of Cronos
at the hands of his son. Even if they were true I should not think that they
ought to be thus lightly told to thoughtless young persons. But the best way
would be to bury them in silence, and if there were some necessity1 for relating them, that only a
very small audience should be admitted under pledge of secrecy and after
sacrificing, not a pig,2 but some huge and
unprocurable victim, to the end that as few as possible should have heard
these tales.” “Why, yes,” said he,
“such stories are hard sayings.” “Yes, and
they are not to be told,
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