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since what they now tell us
is neither true nor edifying to men who are destined to be
warriors.” “Yes, we must,” he said.
“Then,” said I, “beginning with this verse we
will expunge everything of the same kind:“
Liefer were I in the fields up above to be serf to
another
Tiller of some poor plot which yields him a scanty subsistence,
Than to be ruler and king over all the dead who have perished,
”Aesch. Frag. 3501 and this:
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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