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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: which is as much as to say, "knowing wise counsels in his mind."
Ganymede, therefore, bears a name compounded of the two words, "joy"
and "counsel," and is honoured among the gods, not as one "whose
body," but "whose mind" "gives pleasure."
[59] Partly "Il." xxiv. 674, {pukina phresi mede' ekhontes}; and "Il."
xxiv. 424, {phila phresi medea eidos}. Cf. "Od." vi. 192; xviii.
67, 87; xxii. 476.
Furthermore (I appeal to you, Niceratus),[60] Homer makes Achilles
avenge Patroclus in that brilliant fashion, not as his favourite, but
as his comrade.[61] Yes, and Orestes and Pylades,[62] Theseus and
Peirithous,[63] with many another noble pair of demigods, are
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