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campaign none whom he
wishes to kiss be allowed to refuse, so that if one is in love with anyone,
male or female, he may be the more eager to win the prize.”
“Excellent,” said I, “and we have already said
that the opportunity of marriage will be more readily provided for the good
man, and that he will be more frequently selected than the others for
participation in that sort of thing, in order that as many children as
possible may be born from such stock.” “We
have,” he replied.“But,
furthermore, we may cite Homer1
1 Hom. Il. 7.321-322. Cf. also viii. 162, xii. 311.
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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