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and possessed by grief and
lamentation—still less a woman that is sick, in love, or in
labor.” “Most certainly not,” he replied.
“Nor may they imitate slaves, female and male, doing the offices
of slaves.” “No, not that either.”
“Nor yet, as it seems, bad men who are cowards and who do the
opposite of the things we just now spoke of, reviling and lampooning one
another, speaking foul words in their cups or when sober
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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