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so as by one noble lie to persuade if possible
the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?”
“What kind of a fiction do you mean?” said he.
“Nothing unprecedented,” said I, “but a sort
of Phoenician tale,As was the Cadmus legend of the men who sprang
from the dragon's teeth, which the Greks believed OU(/TWS A)PI/QANON O)/N, Laws 663 E.
Pater, who translates the passage (Plato and Platonism,
p. 223), fancifully suggests that it is a “miners'
story.” Others read into it an allusion to Egyptian castes.
The proverb YEU=SMA *FOINIKIKO/N(Strabo
259 B) probably goes back to the Phoenician tales of the
Odyssey. something that has happened ere now in
many par