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while they live, up to the very last hours of life, and when they depart they are sorely regretted; but to the bad are truly fearsome. Therefore let every man, in obedience to these counsels, honor his own parents with all the due legal honors. If however, “report convicts”1 any of deafness to such preludes, the following law will be enacted rightly to deal with them:—If any person in this State be unduly neglectful of his parents,2 and fail to consider them in all things more than
1 Alluding to Pindar's phrase (Ol. 7. 18) ὁ δ᾽ ὄλβιος ὃν φᾶμαι κατέχοντ᾽ ἀγαθαί. Cp. Eur. Hipp. 1466.
2 Cp. Plat. Laws 717d, Plat. Laws 881d.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.
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