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6On the contrary, either fear of the gods, who seemed to have him in their especial care, or reverence for his virtue, or a marvellous felicity, which in his days kept life free from the taint of every vice, and pure, made him a manifest illustration and confirmation of the saying which Plato,[28] many generations later, ventured to utter regarding government,
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Notes
[28] Republic, p. 487 e.