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and that there are also special rites for the defunct, which they call
functions, that deliver us from evils in that other world, while terrible
things await those who have neglected to sacrifice.“What, Socrates, do we suppose is the effect of
all such sayings about the esteem in which men and gods hold virtue and vice
upon the souls that hear them, the souls of young men who are quick-witted
and capable of flitting, as it were, from one expression of opinion to
another and inferring from them
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