Plato, Epinomis, section 986a

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Epinomis, or Nocturnal Council

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[986a] would it not be agreed both by himself and by another who observed it that he would justly be described as an evil man?

Cleinias
To be sure he would, my good sir; nay, most evil.

Athenian
Well then, this, my dear Cleinias, is what, you may take it, has evidently happened to me now.

Cleinias
How do you mean?

Athenian
You know that there are eight powers of those contained in the whole heaven which are cognate to each other: these I have observed, and it is no great achievement; for it is easy enough

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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