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- Book VII., Epigram 96.
O Socrates! Now as the guest of Zeus
Thou drinkest; thou, whom gods have called the wise,
With godlike wisdom. Nor didst thou refuse,
"When Athens offered thee the hemlock draught.
But, with thy mouth, herself hath poison quaffed.
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