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Plutarch, Whether Land Or Sea Animals Are More Clever, 963c

nan learned and studious as they are, would very shortly present us here, one with a large collection of examples drawn from the land, the other with his from the sea, Ishould not have denied myself the pleasure of giving you countless examples of the docility and native capacity of beasts — of which fair Rome has provided us a reservoir from which to draw in pails and buckets, as it were, from the imperial spectacles. Let us leave this subject, therefore, fresh and untouched for them to exercise their art upon in discourse. There is, however, one small matter which Ishould like to discuss with you quietly. It is my opinion that each part and faculty has its own particular weakness or defect or ailment which appears in nothing else, as blindness in the eye, lameness in the leg, stuttering in the tongue. There can be no blindness in an organ which was not created to see, or lameness in a part which was not designed for walking; nor would you ever describe an animal without a tongue as stuttering, or one voiceless by nature as inarticulate. And in the same way you would not call delirious or witless or mad anything

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imperial	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 61
institution	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 61
legislator	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 61
lycurgus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 61
parallelism	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 61
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