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How so?Athenian
Friendship is the name we give to the affection of like for like, in point of goodness, and of equal for equal; and also to that of the needy for the rich, which is of the opposite kind; and when either of these feelings is intense we call it “love.”
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- Plato, Laws, Plat. Laws 10.904e
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- LSJ, περιλαμβάνω
- LSJ, σκότος