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and others they
bound hand and foot and head and flung down and flayed them and dragged them
by the wayside, carding them on thorns and signifying to those who from time
to time passed by for what cause they were borne away, and that they were to
be hurled into Tartarus.1 And then, though many and manifold
dread things had befallen them, this fear exceeded all—lest each
one should hear the voice when he tried to go up, and each went up most
gladly when it had kept silence. And the judgements and penalties were
somewhat after this manner,
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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