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The Sale of Lives (16-17)

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Sokrates

Indeed, I swear it to you by the dog and the plane-tree.

Buyer

Heavens, what strange gods!

Sokrates

What's that you say? Don't you think the dog is a god? Perhaps you have not noticed how great Anoubis is in Egypt, and Seirios in the heavens, and Kerberos among the dead.

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Buyer

You are right, it was my mistake. But what is your manner of life?

Sokrates

I live by myself in a sort of state that I fashioned with a foreign form of government, and I enact my own laws.

Buyer

I should like to hear one of your principles.

Sokrates

Well, this is the most important: my decision about women. No woman is assigned to one man alone, but to every one who wishes her in marriage. Have you, then, abrogated the laws about marriage?

Buyer

What!

Sokrates

Dear me, yes, and all such petty formalities. Beauty shall be the reward of the bravest-those who have accomplished some brilliant feat of daring.

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