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in waking or in dreams.” “I myself
think so,” he said, “when I hear you say it.”
“You concur then,” I said, “this as our second
norm or canon for speech and poetry about the gods,—that they are
neither wizards in shape-shifting nor do they mislead us by falsehoods in
words or deed?” “I concur.” “Then,
though there are many other things that we praise in Homer, this we will not
applaud, the sending of the dream by Zeus1 to Agamemnon, nor shall we
approve of Aeschylus when his Thetis2 avers that
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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