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they entertain the
time henceforth with wine, as if the fairest meed of virtue were an
everlasting drunk. And others extend still further the rewards of virtue
from the gods. For they say that the children's children1 of the pious and oath-keeping man
and his race thereafter never fail. Such and such-like are their praises of
justice. But the impious and the unjust they bury in mud2 in the house of Hades and compel them
to fetch water in a sieve,3 and, while they still live,
1 Kern, ibid., quotes Servius adVirgil, Aeneid iii. 98 “et nati natorum” and opines that Homer took Iliad xx. 308 from Orpheus.
2 Cf. Zeller, Phil. d. Gr. i. pp. 56-57, 533 D, Phaedo 69 C, commentators on Aristophanes Frogs 146.
3 Cf. my note on Horace, Odes iii. 11. 22, and, with an allegorical application, Gorgias 493 B.
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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