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” and Homer writes of her ‘broidered girdle’ “ Cajolery2 that cheats the wisest wits.
” As therefore unrestraint in desire is more unjust as well as more disgraceful than unrestraint as regards anger, unrestraint in desire is Unrestraint in the strict sense, and is even in a certain sense Vice.
1 The line seems to have ended Κυπρογένεος πρόπολον (Bergk, cf. Hesych., K. π. προαγ<ω>γόν) , ‘for the servant of the wile-weaving Cyprus-born,’ viz., Peitho, Persuasion. It is ascribed by Wilamowitz to Sappho, and the same epithet is applied to Aphrodite in Sappho, 1.2.
2 One of the emblematic figures embroidered on the girdle of Aphrodite, Hom. Il. 14.217.
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