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And many similar falsehoods they must
not tell. Nor again must mothers under the influence of such poets terrify
their children1 with harmful
tales, how that there are certain gods whose apparitions haunt the night in
the likeness of many strangers from all manner of lands, lest while they
speak evil of the gods they at the same time make cowards of
children.” “They must not,” he said.
“But,” said I, “may we suppose that while the
gods themselves are incapable of change they cause us to fancy that they
appear in many shapes deceiving and practising magic upon us?”
“Perhaps,” said he. “Consider,”
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