“Twas he himself who first proposed the oath; ye all
Do know; yet he alone of all his vow did break;
He feigned persistently that he was mad, that thus
He might not have to join the host. And had not then
Palamedes, shrewd and wise, his tricky impudence
Unmasked, he had evaded e'en for aye his vow.
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For what do you
think would have been said of Ulysses, if he had
persisted in that pretended madness, seeing that,
notwithstanding his deeds of heroism in the war, he
was nevertheless upbraided by Ajax thus:
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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