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In such cases Laconic apophthegms
and riddling sayings are suitable;
as, for instance, to say what Stesichorus said to the Locrians, that
they ought not to be insolent, lest their cicadas should be forced to chirp from
the ground.1
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1 Meaning that the land would be devastated and the trees cut down.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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