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Logic IV 29

same end has been proposed only recently as a highly modern conception of the [Summun?] [Conum?]. It is time that the proverb speaks of the action merely as [augmy?] of other virtuous behavior but is seemed tolerably clear that the presentation of the organization of society was regarded as a good. The sme things appears in Solon.
2. The majority of proverbs leave us in the dark as their authors no doubt were as to whether the effect of the conduct they recommend or the disposition of mind from which it spring more considered as good. I may therefore, simply set down virtue as held to be good by Homer, Hesiod Esop Solon etc.
3. Herodotus represents Solon as arguing, [text in foreign language] thus the god taught that it is better for a man to be dead than to live, so that we myst reckon Death as having been proposed as at least a negative ultimate good. So Theognis thanks the best time for a man is not to have been born the next to die as soon as convenient.

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