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was
the doing of Themis and Zeus; nor again must we permit our youth to hear
what Aeschylus says—“
A god implants the guilty cause in men
When he would utterly destroy a house,
”Aesch.1 but if any poets
compose a 'Sorrows of Niobe,' the poem that contains these iambics, or a
tale of the Pelopidae or of Troy,
or anything else of the kind, we must either forbid them to say that these
woes are the work of God, or they must devise some such interpretation as we
now require, and must declare that what God
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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