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nor
will we suffer our youth to believe that Achilles, the son of a goddess and
of Peleus the most chaste1 of men,
grandson2 of Zeus, and himself bred under the care of the most sage Cheiron,
was of so perturbed a spirit as to be affected with two contradictory
maladies, the greed that becomes no free man and at the same time
overweening arrogance towards gods and men.” “You are
right,” he said.“Neither,
then,” said I, “must we believe this or suffer it to be
said, that Theseus, the son of Poseidon,
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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