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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. | Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1. | ||
- | ====== Demodocus Poems ====== | + | ====== Demodocus: Poems ====== |
===== Elegiacs ===== | ===== 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. | in the same way, the uncontrolled may not be knaves, but they behave like knaves. | ||
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics | ||
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- | “Demodocus: — | + | Demodocus: — |
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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 | + | |
- | CURFRAG.tlg-0245.2 | + | 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: | “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 | ||
- | CURFRAG.tlg-0245.3 | + | //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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