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Plato to Archytas of
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Tarentum
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wishes well-doing.
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We have been wonderfully pleased at receiving the treatises which have come from you and felt
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the utmost possible admiration for their author; indeed we judged the man to be worthy of those ancient ancestors of his. For in truth these men are said to be Myrians; and they were amongst those Trojans who emigrated in the reign of Laomedon
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—valiant men, as the traditional story declares. As to those treatises of mine about which you wrote, they are not as yet completed, but I have sent them to you just in the state in which they happen to be; as concerns their
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preservation
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we are both in accord, so that there is no need to give directions. (Denied to be Plato’s.)