4.8.2.6 Republic Book 6 ( 229v – 235r)

5.vi.20

Can Hesiod have charted, prophetically, this theogonic procession of generations? Can his prophecy have foretold an early Academician’s fondness for alliteration (just like the fondness of Die Drei Tragikern up through Euripides)? If so he will have made an impact on this prodicus-like wordplay which makes Saturn the son of Time. Producing such progeny, can Time have had a parellel life, otherwise paralleled by his Timaeus active of diagramming Eternity, or being Eternity’s moving image ? Plato is likely aware of the god served especially by Saturnian Priests ? These were writers who out-Prodicus’d Prodicus in their obsfondness for Alliteration. Do however credit Plato with the crowning achievement in the line of alliteration’s cousin, Assonance. Can any tragedian compete for an over-clever Assonance with Plato’s REP., Bk6: “E)PI\ TA\S TW=N PLOUSI/WN QU/RAS I)E/NAI, A)LL’ O( TOU=TO KOMYEUSA/MENOS E)YEU/SATO . . .” [489b 7-8] ἐπὶ τὰς τῶν πλουσίων θύρας ἰέναι, ἀλλ’ ὁ τοῦτο κομψευσάμενος ἐψεύσατο… (sic) here you will see the Kronos/Chronos wordplay, by Philip or Amphinomus:

(bis9) DeMundo 7 and its rarities ‘philios’ ‘sOtEr’, all neologisms

3.vi..20

Republic, Book 6

Chapt 1: 484 a1

Chapt 2: 485 a10

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Chapt 3: 487 b1

Chapt 4: 487 e7

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Chapt 5: 489 e8

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Chapt 6: 490 e1