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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

Homo be i/- ... ■", n • i -c 11°

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 f af.7. faftor. Therefore doft thou affirm the word Damon in
 * Tlm.lib.1. help or fuccor unto another,and whom Pliny calleth a God.

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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