[23] But cp. Rep. x. 611 A.
[24] Cp. Meno 83 ff.
[25] Cp. Apol. 40 E.
[26] Compare Milton, Comus, 463 foll.:—
‘But when lust,
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and lavish act of sin,
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose,
The divine property of her first being.
Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp
Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres,
Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave,
As loath to leave the body that it lov’d,
And linked itself by carnal sensuality
To a degenerate and degraded state.’
[27] Cp. Rep. x. 619 C.
[28] Cp. Rev., esp. c. xxi. v. 18 ff.