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"And likewise in almost all cases where practical experience in ' | "And likewise in almost all cases where practical experience in ' | ||
- | "Tell me, do you think Apollo speaks Attic or Doric? Or that men and gods have the same language? Yet the difference is so great that the Scamander river in Troy is called | + | "Tell me, do you think Apollo speaks Attic or Doric? Or that men and gods have the same language? Yet the difference is so great that the Scamander river in Troy is called |
"But how about you? Have you no fear, lest, when the god says one thing you may understand another? As, for instance, the story of the famous Laïus, the man who became the lover of Chrysippus; when he had gone to Delphi, he asked the god how he might have issue. The god bade him 'not to beget, or, having begotten, to expose.' | "But how about you? Have you no fear, lest, when the god says one thing you may understand another? As, for instance, the story of the famous Laïus, the man who became the lover of Chrysippus; when he had gone to Delphi, he asked the god how he might have issue. The god bade him 'not to beget, or, having begotten, to expose.' | ||
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The other on hearing this replied, "You, **Diogenes**, | The other on hearing this replied, "You, **Diogenes**, | ||
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+ | Source: Discourses by Dio Chrysostom published in the Loeb Classical Library, 1932. The text is in the public domain. </ |
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