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dishonesty. Only Socrates would swear deeply that he accompanied young men in a cleanly fashion, and therefore every man condemned him for a perjured fellow: and Hyacinthus and Narcissus both confessed otherwise for all his denial.
The women there are all in common, and no man takes exception at it, in which respect they are absolutely the best Platonists inPlato in his Commonwealth would have all women common. the world: and so do the boys yield themselves to any man's pleasure without contradiction.
After I had spent two or three days in this manner, I went to talk with Homer the poet, our leisure serving us both well, and to know of him what countryman he was, a question with us hard to be resolved,
