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1 Plato keeps to the point. Cf. 472 B, Phileb. 27 C, and p. 339 note e, on 572 B.
2 Cf. 348 B, 361 A.
3 Cf. Homer, Il. vi. 179-182, Phaedr. 229 D.
4 Od. xii. 85 ff.
5 Hesiod, Theog. 311-312.
6 Stallbaum ad loc. gives a long list of writers who imitated this passage. Hesiod, Theog. 823 f., portrays a similar monster in Typhoeus, who had a hundred serpent-heads. For the animal in man c.Tim. 70 E, Charm. 155 D-E, Phaedr. 230 A, 246 A ff., Boethius, Cons. iv. 2-3, Horace Epist. i. 1. 76, Iamblichus, Protrept. chap. iii.
7 Cf. 596 C.
8 Cf. Cic.De or. iii. 45 “sicut mollissimam ceram . . . fingimus.” Otto, 80, says it is a proverb. For the development of this figure cf. Pliny, Epist. vii. 9 “ut laus est cerae, mollis cedensque sequatur.” For the idea that word is more precise or easy than deed Cf. 473 A, Phaedo 99 E, Laws 636 A, 736 B, Tim. 19 E.
9 Cf. 442 A.
10 Cf. 577 A.
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