JUSTICE
Back to earth once more, to be driven off by them and to flee from the world again because I cannot stand being laughed at by Injustice?
Back to earth once more, to be driven off by them and to flee from the world again because I cannot stand being laughed at by Injustice?
ZEUS
You must be of good hope. Certainly by now the philosophers have persuaded them to regard you more highly than Injustice; especially the son of Sophroniscus,
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who praised just dealing to the skies and declared it the greatest of blessings.
You must be of good hope. Certainly by now the philosophers have persuaded them to regard you more highly than Injustice; especially the son of Sophroniscus,
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who praised just dealing to the skies and declared it the greatest of blessings.
JUSTICE
Truly the very man you mention profited greatly by his talk about me! He was handed over to the Eleven, thrown into prison, and drank hemlock, poor fellow, before he had even paid that cock to Asclepius;
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so much the better of the argument had his accusers, whose philosophy was directly opposed to his, and favoured Injustice.
Truly the very man you mention profited greatly by his talk about me! He was handed over to the Eleven, thrown into prison, and drank hemlock, poor fellow, before he had even paid that cock to Asclepius;
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so much the better of the argument had his accusers, whose philosophy was directly opposed to his, and favoured Injustice.
Bis accusatus sive tribunalia. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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