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“What is
that?” “When anyone images badly in his speech the true
nature of gods and heroes, like a painter whose portraits bear no
resemblance to his models.” “It is certainly right to
condemn things like that,” he said; “but just what do we
mean and what particular things?” “There is, first of
all,” I said, “the greatest lie about the things of
greatest concernment, which was no pretty invention of him who told how
Uranus did what Hesiod says he did to Cronos, and how Cronos in turn took
his revenge;
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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