The Republic by Plato

The Republic by Plato

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benefits which the heavens, as they say, rain upon the pious; and this

accords with the testimony of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first of

whom says, that the gods make the oaks of the just—

 

'To bear acorns at their summit, and bees in the middle;

And the sheep are bowed down with the weight of their fleeces,'

and many other blessings of a like kind are provided for them. And Homer has a very similar strain; for he speaks of one whose fame is—

'As the fame of some blameless king who, like a god, Maintains justice; to whom the black earth brings forth Wheat and barley, whose trees are bowed with fruit, And his sheep never fail to bear, and the sea gives him fish.'


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