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even if they did
happen for the nonce to drink a posset; but they thought that the life of a
man constitutionally sickly and intemperate was of no use to himself or
others, and that the art of medicine should not be for such nor should they
be given treatment even if they were richer than Midas.1” “Very ingenious fellows,”
he said, “you make out these sons of Asclepius to
be.”“'Tis
fitting,” said I; “and yet in disregard of our
principles the tragedians and Pindar2 affirm that Asclepius, though he was the son of Apollo, was
bribed by gold
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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