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Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1.
Demodocus Poems
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
<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
“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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” Palatine Anthology
Tetrameters
“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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” Diogenes Laertius Life of Bias
1 cf. Aspas. ad loc. , Plut. de Flum. 18 （?）
2 cf. Phocyl. i, which is perh. a parody in answer to D.'s attack on the Milesians （fr. 1）
3 cf. Suid. δικάζεσθαι
4 the technical terms do not correspond with Attic usage