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[3] And what we have said is clearly exemplified in the case of these men who have been mentioned1; for though they were of the distant past, all mankind speaks of them as if they were alive to-day.Const. Exc. 2 (1), pp. 223-224.

1 Diodorus is probably still speaking about the Pythagoreans.

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