[That is, they cured him. The madman was Thrasyllus, son of Pythodorus… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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[That is, they cured him. The madman was Thrasyllus, son of Pythodorus. His brother Crito cured him, when he infinitely regretted the time of his more pleasant madness.--See Aelian, Var. Hist. iv. 25. So Horace-- ------------"Pol, me occidistis, amici, Non servastis," ait, "cui sic extorta voluptas Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error." HOR. EP. ii--2, 138, of the madman who was cured of a pleasant lunacy.]
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