Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny (1895)
Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 50
RD CITY. There was once a beautiful citywhere for a long* time people weregood and brave and liappy. Theysang sweet songs, told pleasantstories, built great temples andoffered sacrifices to the gods. Butit came about as time passed on,that they grew selfish, each mandesiring the things that… … of all this wrangle and made uptheir minds that they would go offto a pleasanter place. So each of 38 STORIES FROM PLATO them bought a bird; one bought amagpie and the other a jackdaw,to show them the way to a betterland. They travelled about for manydays, tramping up and down, watch-ing every…
