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some of them, to my thinking, never
participate in it, and the majority quite late.” “Yes,
by heaven, excellently said,” I replied; “and further,
one could see in animals that what you say is true. And to these instances
we may add the testimony of Homer quoted above:“
He smote his breast and chided thus his heart.
”Hom. Od. 20.17 For there Homer has clearly
represented that in us
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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