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complain of the indignities that
friends and kinsmen put upon old age and thereto recite a doleful
litany1 of all
the miseries for which they blame old age. But in my opinion, Socrates, they
do not put the blame on the real cause.2 For if it were the cause I too should have had the same
experience so far as old age is concerned, and so would all others who have
come to this time of life. But in fact I have ere now met with others who do
not feel in this way, and in particular I remember hearing Sophocles the
poet greeted by a fellow who asked,
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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