Protagoras
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 1 Intro|   good,’~and then reproaches Pittacus for having said, ‘Hard is
 2 Intro|      of the seven sages. Now Pittacus had a saying, ‘Hard is it
 3 Intro|  controvert it. No, says he, Pittacus; not ‘hard to be good,’
 4 Intro|   intended as an attack upon Pittacus. This, though manifestly
 5 Text |   not agree with the word of Pittacus, albeit the utterance of
 6 Text |      forgetting, and blaming Pittacus and refusing to agree with
 7 Text | Prodicus.~And then he blames Pittacus, not, as Protagoras imagines,
 8 Text |      different from himself. Pittacus does not say as Simonides
 9 Text |    said, Prodicus, he blames Pittacus for saying, ‘Hard is the
10 Text |  meaning; and he is twitting Pittacus with ignorance of the use
11 Text |  were Thales of Miletus, and Pittacus of Mitylene, and Bias of
12 Text |    Now there was a saying of Pittacus which was privately circulated
13 Text | secret intention of damaging Pittacus and his saying.~Let us all
14 Text |    reference to the words of Pittacus. Pittacus is saying ‘Hard
15 Text |    to the words of Pittacus. Pittacus is saying ‘Hard is it to
16 Text |   that the truly hard thing, Pittacus, is to become good, not
17 Text |     construing the saying of Pittacus thus (and let us imagine
18 Text |     thus (and let us imagine Pittacus to be speaking and Simonides
19 Text |   him): ‘O my friends,’ says Pittacus, ‘hard is it to be good,’
20 Text | Simonides answers, ‘In that, Pittacus, you are mistaken; the difficulty
21 Text |  refutation of the saying of Pittacus. For he speaks in what follows
22 Text |   state and be good, as you, Pittacus, affirm, is not possible,
23 Text |     help being bad. And you, Pittacus, are saying, ‘Hard is it
24 Text |   love.’~All this relates to Pittacus, as is further proved by
25 Text |      pursues his attack upon Pittacus throughout the whole poem):~‘
26 Text |      also wishes to imply to Pittacus that he does not censure
27 Text |     because he is addressing Pittacus,~‘Who love and APPROVE every
28 Text |    praise and love. And you, Pittacus, I would never have blamed,


The Republic
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29 1    |      to Simonides or Bias or Pittacus, or any other wise man or