What's very good claims to be heard twice.Therefore we must apply ourselves again to Theon; for I think he was present at our former discourse; and moreover, [p. 196] he is a young man, and needs not fear being charged by these young gentlemen with having a bad memory.
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But (said he, looking upon me) I should be impertinent, should I say any thing upon this subject, when we have
heard you but now discourse so fully against those that
would persuade us that Epicurus's doctrine about the soul
renders men more disposed and better pleased to die than
Plato's doth. Zeuxippus therefore subjoined and said:
And must our present debate be left then unfinished because of that? Or shall we be afraid to oppose that
divine oracle to Epicurus? No, by no means, I said;
and Empedocles tells us that
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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