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 ===== Elegiacs =====
+Now it is clear that lack of self-control is not a vice —though in a way perhaps it is, for it may or may not be deliberate; all the same the result is similar, as in the line of Demodocus on the Milesians:1
-“Now it is clear that lack of self-control is not a vice —though in a way perhaps it is, for it may or may not be deliberate; all the same the result is similar, as in the line of Demodocus on the Milesians:1
+<Thus also spake Demodocus —> //The Milesians are not dolts, but they behave like dolts;//
-<Thus also spake Demodocus —> The Milesians are not dolts, but they behave like dolts;
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 in the same way, the uncontrolled may not be knaves, but they behave like knaves.
-”
 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
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-“Demodocus: —
+Demodocus: —
-Thus also spake Demodocus —The Chians are bad men, not one bad and another not, but all save Procles, and Procles is a Chian.2
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+Thus also spake Demodocus —//The Chians are bad men, not one bad and another not, but all save Procles, and Procles is a Chian.2//
-” Palatine Anthology
+Palatine Anthology
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 “3He is said to have had a remarkable talent for pleading a cause, but he used the full strength of his oratory to a good end, and so it is this that Demodocus of Leros means in the line:
-If ever thou go to law, prosecute thy case after the manner of Priene.4
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+//If ever thou go to law, prosecute thy case after the manner of Priene.4//
-” Diogenes Laertius Life of Bias
+Diogenes Laertius Life of Bias
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