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[229a] of each Hermes there is one in which the god says that he stands in the midst of the city or the township, while on the right side he says:“The memorial of Hipparchus: walk with just intent.
”There are many other fine inscriptions from his poems on other figures of Hermes, and this one in particular, on the Steiria1 road, in which he says:


1 A town on the south-east coast of Attica.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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