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 1 Pre |       that the difficulties about prayer which have perplexed Christian
 2 Text|       going, Alcibiades, to offer prayer to Zeus?~ALCIBIADES: Yes,
 3 Text|         new ones. And was not his prayer accomplished, and did not
 4 Text|      would venture to make such a prayer?~SOCRATES: Madness, then,
 5 Text|           likely to gain aught by prayer, has refrained from making
 6 Text|         them, offered up a common prayer in behalf of them all:—~‘
 7 Text|          more like a curse than a prayer.~SOCRATES: But perhaps,
 8 Text|          ask before you made your prayer, ‘Whether you would desire
 9 Text|         he may have to recall his prayer, and, as you were saying,
10 Text| themselves, are wont to offer the prayer alike in public and private,
11 Text|         has not been due to their prayer. For surely, as I conceive,
12 Text|           by ‘silent worship’ the prayer of the Lacedaemonians, which
13 Text|       your approaching the God in prayer, lest haply he should refuse
14 Text|        prevent you from using the prayer of the Lacedaemonians. You