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 1 1 |         pronounced the wisest of men by the oracle of the Pythian
 2 2 |          aptitude for persuading men by speaking than by teaching.
 3 2 |          from sacred sources, as men deem them, because in ancient
 4 2 |       art and practice. Wide are men's inquiries into uncertainties;
 5 3 |         sophistical doctrines of men which "mix their wine with
 6 6 |          immortality. For to all men it is not given to believe
 7 8 |     answer to this argument), if men should deny that the sea
 8 9 |  mysterious communications; some men's hearts she understands,
 9 10|        its substance. Never mind men's artificial views and theories,
10 10|       soul. Let one of them quit men's bodies, let the other
11 13|        wishes more frequently on men's lips--the mind or the
12 13|          themselves, and medical men, even when it is their purpose
13 15|          jeopardy. Indeed, those men who say that there is no
14 18|         but are very remote from men's everyday knowledge, lying
15 20|          devil; but according to men's general opinion about
16 20|        present is the variety of men's maunders, it was not so
17 25|   delivery (let barren women and men keep silence),--the truth
18 25|       the East and the West, and men's minds are sharper; whilst
19 25|        and humdrum. The minds of men, too, would grow keener
20 27|        outflow and redundance of men's souls--nature proving
21 28|         Hades itself! Thus, that men are made alive after death,
22 28|          to make us believe that men live again after they have
23 28|       have recovered life, since men were rising again from the
24 29|     FIRST PRINCIPLE, THAT LIVING MEN ARE FORMED FROM THE DEAD.~
25 29|       indeed, manifest that dead men are formed from living ones;
26 29|    follow from that, that living men are formed from dead ones.
27 30|      once felled large masses of men, the world has hitherto
28 30|         we must not believe that men come back to life from the
29 31|         one uniform age? For all men are imbued with an infant
30 32|         THE POSTHUMOUS CHANGE OF MEN INTO VARIOUS ANIMALS.~But
31 32|    discussing. For although some men are compared to the beasts
32 32| ill-tempered ones panthers, good men sheep, talkative ones swallows,
33 32|        ones swallows, and chaste men doves, as if the selfsame
34 33|       pretence that the souls of men obtain as their partners
35 33|         which is inflicted among men upon the homicide is really
36 33|         a handsome gain for good men to be restored to life in
37 33|        for gods to pronounce, as men's recompense after death!
38 33|    rewards; such as the worst of men could never fear, nor the
39 33|          and of consolation, (on men whose) souls are not to
40 34|      appearance of a man amongst men, he acted the part of the
41 35|         by nature, but simply as men think of it. The transmigration
42 36|     their bodies to the souls of men and women, as he had been
43 38|      circumstances, according to men's means and arts, their
44 39|        it comes to pass that all men are brought to the birth
45 40|          against the spirit, and men on its account are censured
46 41|     accidental outlet. Thus some men are very bad, and some very
47 43|          he spoke; in Order that men may see that sleep is a
48 46|      breast of Socrates soothing men, is his disciple Plato.
49 46|   persistence in evil, deceiving men by their very boons of remedies,
50 50| oracle-inspiring fountain affect men with madness; how Alexander
51 50|        marshy Styx as preserving men from death; although Thetis
52 50|        Where are to be found the men whom Menander himself has
53 51|          brain. You have medical men (to attest the fact). But
54 51|          in the opinions of some men; and on this account they
55 52|        it has been, according to men's views, distinguished in
56 53|     rather to be left to medical men, who are the proper judges
57 56|        days are appointed to all men severally, and if so appointed,
58 57|        and violent deaths, which men ascribe to accidents, are
59 57|         we are proclaiming, that men may not readily believe
60 57|        doubt, sometimes recalled men's souls to their bodies,
61 58|     souls do not sleep even when men are alive: it is indeed