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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 1012 — Chapter XI · SPIRIT OF THE GRECIAN RELIGION.

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De Rep. ii. 7. t. i. p. 112. sqq. Stallb.—The belief that children suffered for the crimes of their parents, which widely pervaded the pagan world, is nowhere more clearly stated than by Plato:—Γὰρ ἐν Αἵδου δίκην δώσομεν ὧν ἂν ἐνθαδε ἀδικήσωμεν, ἢ αὐτσὶ ἢ παῖδες παῖδων.—Id. c. 8. p. 119.

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