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Plato, Alcibiades Ii, 143b

nan but—worst of all—into praying to be granted the greatest evils. Now that is a thing that no one would suppose of himself; each of us would rather suppose he was competent to pray for his own greatest good, not his greatest evil. Why, that would seem, in truth, more like some sort of curse than a prayer! Soc. But perhaps, my excellent friend, some person who is wiser than either you or I may say we are wrong to be so free with our abuse of ignorance

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prayers,epicurus on	Mikalson (2010) 244
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prayers,objects of	Mikalson (2010) 244
proper respect for gods,and unwritten laws'	Mikalson (2010) 244
sanctuaries,in magnesia	Mikalson (2010) 244
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