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ZEUS
Have the philosophers made a plot against you?PHILOSOPHY
By no means, father. Why, they themselves have been wronged in common with me!ZEUS
At whose hands, then, have you been wronged, if you have no fault to find either with the common sort or with the philosophers?PHILOSOPHY
There are some, Zeus, who occupy a middle ground between the multitude and the philosophers. In deportment, glance, and gait they are like us, and similarly dressed; as a matter of fact, they want to be enlisted under my command and they enroll themselves under my name, saying that they are my pupils, disciples, and devotees. Nevertheless, their abominable way of living, full of ignorance, impudence, and wantonness, is no trifling outrage against me. Itis they, father, who have inflicted the wrongs that have made me flee.Fugitivi. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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