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if you deny having said this, when you have said it, I am justified; while if you confess it, you should further agree that Stesichorus1 was a wise man, and imitate his palinode, and renounce the false for the true tale.
1 A lyric poet, circa 600 B.C., said to have been struck blind for his attacks on the reputation of Helen of Troy, which he subsequently withdrew in his recantation (“palinode”); cf. Plat. Phaedrus 243a, Plat. Phaedrus 243b.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 7 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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