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Book 33 - Chapter 20

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<head lang="la">E. Fragmenta Incertae Sedis</head><w lemma="%2A%28%2Foti">Ὅτι</w> <w lemma="o%28%2Ftan">ὅταν</w> <w lemma="a%28%2Fpac">ἅπαξ</w> <w lemma="oi%28">οἱ</w> <w lemma="polloi%5C">πολλοὶ</w> <w lemma="sxw%3Dsin">σχῶσιν</w> <w lemma="o%28rmh%5Cn">ὁρμὴν</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="filei%3Dn">φιλεῖν</w> <w lemma="h%29%5C">ἢ</w> <w lemma="misei%3Dn">μισεῖν</w> <w lemma="tinas">τινας</w> <w lemma="u%28perballo%2Fntws">ὑπερβαλλόντως</w>, <w lemma="pa%3Dsa">πᾶσα</w> <w lemma="pro%2Ffasis">πρόφασις</w> <w lemma="i%28kanh%5C">ἱκανὴ</w> <w lemma="gi%2Fnetai">γίνεται</w> <w lemma="pro%5Cs">πρὸς</w> <w lemma="to%5C">τὸ</w> <w lemma="suntelei%3Dn">συντελεῖν</w> <w lemma="ta%5Cs">τὰς</w> <w lemma="au%28tw%3Dn">αὑτῶν</w> <w lemma="proqe%2Fseis">προθέσεις</w>. —
<head>The Multitude Will Act on its Feelings</head>When once the multitude feel the impulse to violent love or hatred of any one, any pretext is good enough for indulging their feelings. . . .However, I am afraid I may fall under the common dilemma, "Which is the greater fool, the man who milks a he-goat, or the man who holds a sieve to catch the milk?" For I seem to be doing something of this sort in arguing and writing an essay on what every one acknowledges to be false. It is, then, waste time to speak of such things, unless one cares to write down dreams, or look at dreams with one's eyes open. . . .<pb />

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33.20.0 - 33.21.0
<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold">20–21.</emph> Unplaced fragments </p> <p rend="Plain Text">These two excerpts from de sent. could be from either xxxiii or xxxiv. Ch. 20 might be a continuation of the remarks about <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rhodes&groupId=931&placeId=1665">Rhodes</a> (17. 1–5) but ch. 21 seems more like the polemic found in book xxxiv; it could well be from criticism of Pytheas (cf. xxxiv. 5. 7, 5. 9). See pp. 42–43.</p>

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