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and all
similar passages.” “Yes, well said.”
“But what of this sort of thing?“
Heavy with wine with the eyes of a dog and the heart
of a fleet deer,
”Hom. Il. 1.2251and the lines that follow,2 are these well—and
other impertinences3 in prose or verse of private
citizens to their rulers?” “They are not
well.” “They certainly are not suitable for youth to
hear for the inculcation of self-control. But if from another point of view
they yield some pleasure we must not be surprised, or what is your view of
it?” “This,” he said.“Again, to represent the wisest man as saying
that this seems to him the fairest thing in the world,“
When the bounteous tables are standing
”
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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