Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Alcibiades Ii, 148b

nan when it is really a case for great caution lest one pray unawares for what is evil while thinking it to be one’s good, and then after a little while, as you were saying, one change one’s tune and retract all one’s former prayers. Soc. And did not the poet whom I quoted at the beginning of our discussion know more than we, when he bade us pray for the averting of what is grievous, even though we pray for it? Alc. I think so. Soc. Then it is their admiration of this poet, Alcibiades

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ammon	Mikalson (2010) 49
dedications	Mikalson (2010) 49
festivals,in athens	Mikalson (2010) 49
good speech,in prayer'	Mikalson (2010) 49
good speech	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,and good speech	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,and justice	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,objects of	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,proper	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,pythagoras on	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers,to zeus	Mikalson (2010) 49
prayers	Mikalson (2010) 49
pythagoras and pythagoreans,on prayer	Mikalson (2010) 49
spartans,prayers of	Mikalson (2010) 49
spartans	Mikalson (2010) 49
zeus	Mikalson (2010) 49