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Pollux. But it is not to be fuppofed, that the Greeks are vain in all things ; but a.; many others, when they fpeak out of a three-footed thing; whereof aifo the Poet Ovid fpeaks inverfe,
��——Nee fingunt omnia Gnci,
Homo ho- Caflcr. In this provorb I proteft they are mod true, with- viniDeus. out any exception, that is, aiSfi/u-i* diS^TvAuiunoy. that is, One man to another U a devil.
Pollux. Wherefore believeft thou this to be mod true, Calf or t . Caffor. Tritely, that man to man is a devil and a ravening
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minidmbo- wolf, daily events do molt certainly prove , Jt we do but
(itf. note the treacheries that one man invents daily againft
another, the robberies, thefts, plunderings, rapes, (laughters, deceits, adulteries , and an hundred vipers of this nature; the fathers perfecute the fon,with a Terpentine and poifonous biting; one friend feeks to devour another , neither can the gueft be fafe with his hoft.
Pollux. Tconfefs it is truth thou fpeakeft j butforoughtl hear, thou dofl mif underhand the Etymologie of the word compared in this Proverb ; for Damon here is not an horrible or odious name , but the name of one that doth adminifter
- Tlm.lib.1. help or fuccor unto another,and whom Pliny calleth a God.
f af.7. faftor. Therefore doft thou affirm the word Damon in
this Proverb to fignifie any other then a cunning and malici- ous accufer ?
Pollux. Thou hart not fhotbefides the mark: for,that there are more Damons then that fublunary one which thou under- fiandeft,every one may eafily perceive , who hath not negli- gently read the opinions of the mof* excellent Plato,
Cahor. I defire therefore , that thou wouldft not conceal fuch his writings j but that I may apprehend the marrow thereof.
Pollux. T will embrace fuch thy defire, for truely I do de- light to treat with thee concerning this fubjeft ; markthere- fore,andgiveattention. Plato
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