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too for the justice of honoring in such
ways the valiant among our youth. For Homer says that Ajax, who had
distinguished himself in the war, was honored with the long chine,1
assuming that the most fitting meed for a brave man in the prime of his
youth is that from which both honor and strength will accrue to
him.” “Most rightly,” he said. “We
will then,” said I, “take Homer as our guide in this at
least. We, too, at sacrifices and on other like occasions, will reward the
good so far as they have proved themselves good with hymns and the other
privileges of which we have just spoken,
1 I.e, the back. Hom. Il. 7.321-322.
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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