Dialogue

 1 Repub|     sacrifices, and dedicate gifts to the gods abundantly and
 2 Repub|        Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus
 3 Repub|     let them be receivers of gifts or lovers of money. ~Certainly
 4 Repub|    must we sing to them of ~"Gifts persuading gods, and persuading
 5 Repub|      that he should take the gifts of the Greeks and assist
 6 Repub|     that he took Agamemnon's gifts, or that when he had received
 7 Repub|   male sex has not all these gifts and qualities in a higher
 8 Repub|   virtue of his sex, but the gifts of nature are alike diffused
 9 Repub|     memory, were his natural gifts. And you objected that,
10 Repub|    be the true philosopher's gifts. ~Yes. ~Will not such an
11 Repub|     be many of them; for the gifts which were deemed by us
12 Repub| should also have the natural gifts which will facilitate their
13 Repub|    And what are these? ~Such gifts as keenness and ready powers
14 Repub|   said; he must have natural gifts. ~The mistake at present
15 Repub|    body ever is by receiving gifts of beauty, strength, and
16 Repub|   the prizes and rewards and gifts which are bestowed upon
17 Repub|     the natural and acquired gifts of the soul, and the operation
18 Repub| games who go round to gather gifts, we receive our reward.