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  "title": "Republic on the valley below",
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        "id": "http://lzbth.micro.blog/2026/09/09/viiiiii-beautycalling-the-distance-away.html",
        "title": "VIII.iii. ( beauty-calling the ) distance away",
        "content_html": "<p>ADEIMANTOS: O goddess, have you seen</p>\n<p>the first thing about justice? does she resemble</p>\n<p>the stringing of a bow? the tuning of a lyre?</p>\n<p>what may she have to do with strangers?</p>\n<p>HERA: so(the other)owed(was obliged)(owe, you,</p>\n<p>to)(the)other, to be dear(obliged, pleasing, gratified)</p>\n<p>(to-by-for the)blessed gods (they were running)</p>\n<p>(by runnings)( they were shining )(by shinings)</p>\n<p>(by gazings, blessed gods),</p>\n<p>ὡς ὄφελ᾽ ἄλλο θεοῖσι χαρίζεσθαι μακάρεσσι.</p>\n<p>ADEIMANTOS: ( so drawing lots ) we fall asleep</p>\n<p>( and lots of dreams and ) holding you</p>\n<p>( perchance to be ) other-seen,</p>\n<p>SOKRATES: well(they)would,</p>\n<p>εἶεν,</p>\n<p>ADEIMANTOS: ( take rest ) near where my fears live,</p>\n<p>( but far away from me ) our secret whisperings,</p>\n<p>and ( beauty-calling ) she hears and holds</p>\n<p>with a daimonic in-between ( meta-</p>\n<p>other ) ( number-</p>\n<p>he )</p>\n<p>SOKRATES: well would(they)be, (o saying)(the saying)</p>\n<p>(say, you!)(they say)(we say)(the saying),</p>\n<p>εἶεν, εἶπον:</p>\n<p>ADEIMANTOS: but would we be well ( hoping</p>\n<p>the distance away ) ( and of a rainbow ), (o saying)</p>\n<p>(the saying)(they say)(we say)(the word-song)(saying)?</p>\n<p>SOKRATES: (are you)mocking(and making-fun of)me,</p>\n<p>throwing me into(a)logos(word-speech-account</p>\n<p>)(thats)so hard to demonstrate?</p>\n<p>(δυσαπόδεικτον or dusapodeikton</p>\n<p>= dus + apo + deiknumi</p>\n<p>= hard-bad-unlucky + away-from-off-and-back-</p>\n<p>again-by-way-of-abuse + to show)</p>\n<p>σκώπτεις ἐμβεβληκώς με εἰς λόγον οὕτω δυσαπόδεικτον;</p>\n<p>ADEIMANTOS: but no, O Sokrates, it strings like silk</p>\n<p>because it hangs on trust. ( we wake up with</p>\n<p>you holding me ) a demonstration (to-</p>\n<p>for-by)you(hold-and-have in her likeness</p>\n<p>a logos of other-justice</p>\n<p>her beloved story</p>\n<p>as)ourself.</p>\n<p>//</p>\n<p>from hymn to Apollo</p>\n<p>Republic VI</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-09-09T19:12:07+08:00",
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        "tags": ["Verses/Curses","Ceremony","Strangers","Wherefrom","Dialogue","Whereto","Sailing","Republic"]
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