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Secondly, hatred may be conceived even against brutes;
for there are some men who have an antipathy to cats or
beetles or toads or serpents. Germanicus could endure
neither the crowing nor the sight of a cock; and the Persian Magi were killers of mice, as creatures which they
both hated themselves and accounted odious to God. In
like manner also all the Arabians and Ethiopians abhor
them. But envy is purely a human passion, and directed
only against man.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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