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Thursday Night Acoustic Jam: Nicolò Renna Trio, "Las Abejas"

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge10/30/2015 9:22:44 am PDT

re: #323 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

This may be a fake quote, as it doesn’t appear in Hesiod’s writings. It’s also been attributed to Plato and Aristotle.
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I’m pretty sure it’s fake—we have no prose from the 8th century (or the 7th, or the 6th)—Plato had great habit of attributing quotes to others, especially Socrates, who never wrote a word. Everything attributed to him is from Plato—period.