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imitating one of the heroes who is in grief,1 and is
delivering a long tirade in his lamentations or chanting and beating his
breast, feel pleasure,2 and abandon ourselves and accompany
the representation with sympathy and eagerness,3 and we praise as an excellent poet
the one who most strongly affects us in this way.” “I do
know it, of course.” “But when in our own lives some
affliction comes to us, you are also aware that we plume ourselves upon the
opposite, on our ability to remain calm and endure,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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