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Plutarch's Morals

Note 841 — Front matter (continued 8)

A. R. (Arthur Richard) Shilleto translation

The allusion is to the well-known story of Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is supposed to have dwelt in the island of Sicily, where Agathocles was tyrant.

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