Discourse upon discording arguments[p. 217] For thus comparing what you have both discoursed one against another, it will be found that you have acquitted yourselves on both sides like true champions against those that would deprive brute animals of sense and understanding.
Is then determined best, when what was said
Is duly weighed and stated on both sides.
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ARISTOTIMUS. Now, gentlemen, it lies on your part
that are judges, to pronounce sentence.
SOCLARUS. Assuredly then, for our parts, we shall give
the same judgment in this, as Sophocles did in another
case:
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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