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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 334 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 208 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 84 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschines, Speeches | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Andromache (ed. David Kovacs) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Ion (ed. Robert Potter) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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is that I have been filled through the ears, like a pitcher, from the well springs of another; but, again because of my stupidity, I have forgotten how and from whom I heard it.PhaedrusMost noble Socrates, that is splendid! Don't tell, even if I beg you, how or from whom you heard it; only do as you say; promise to make another speech better than that in the book and no shorter and quite different. Then I promise, like the nine archons, to set up at Delphi a statue as large as life,
that the former discourse was by Phaedrus, the son of Pythocles (Eager for Fame) of Myrrhinus (Myrrhtown); but this which I shall speak is by Stesichorus, son of Euphemus (Man of pious Speech) of Himera (Town of Desire). And I must say that this saying is not true, which teaches that when a lover is at hand the non-lover should be more favored, because the lover is insane, and the other sane. For if it were a simple fact that insanity is an evil, the saying would be true; but in reality the greatest of blessings come to us through madness, when it is sent as a gift of the gods. For the prophetess at Delphi