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“by those who have their opinions stolen from them I mean those
who are over-persuaded and those who forget, because in the one case time,
in the other argument strips them unawares of their beliefs. Now I presume
you understand, do you not?” “Yes.”
“Well, then, by those who are constrained or forced I mean those
whom some pain or suffering compels1 to change their minds.”
“That too I understand and you are right.”
“And the victims of sorcery2
1 Cf. Dionysius ὁ μεταθέμενος, who went over from the Stoics to the Cyrenaics because of the pain in his eyes, Diogenes Laertius vii. 166.
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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