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must have a like tendency. Don't you think
so?” “I do,” he said; “but I don't
apprehend which you mean by the greater, either.”
“Those,” I said, “that Hesiod1 and
Homer and the other poets related. These, methinks, composed false stories
which they told and still tell to mankind.” “Of what
sort?” he said; “and what in them do you find
fault?” “With that,” I said, “which
one ought first and chiefly to blame, especially if the lie is not a pretty
one.”
1 Theogony 154-181.
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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