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understanding, he says, for the bringing forward of the more well-disposed and the keeping of the more faithful, neither would he himself say, nor those who foolishly admire his things.

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νοῶν φησιν εἰς προσαγωγὴν τῶν εὐνουστέρων καὶ φυλακὴν τῶν πιστοτέρων, οὔτ' ἂν αὐτὸς εἴποι οὔτε οἱ τὰ ἐκείνου ἀνοήτως θαυμάζοντες.