Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 370a

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[370a] that Odysseus the wily is nowhere found to have spoken falsely, but Achilles is found to be a wily sort of person, according to your argument; at any rate, he speaks falsely. For he begins by speaking these lines which you just quoted: “For hateful to me as the gates of Hades is he who hides one thing in his heart and says another,
”Hom. Il. 9.312 ff.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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