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* lines 13. 174-209 – Even execution of a criminal would not undo their crime ; only the uneducated think that revenge is a Good.

That is not what the philosophers Chrysippos, Thales, or Socrates would say.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

The mere intention to do evil is guilt.