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Dissoi logoi
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Dissoi logoi (Greek δισσοὶ λόγοι "contrasting arguments") is a rhetorical exercise of unknown authorship. Based on comments in the text it appears to have been written not long after the Peloponnesian War.
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They introduce poets as witnesses, but these compose for the sake of pleasure not for the sake of truth.
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX, edited by Laks and Most (Loeb Classical Library: 2016), p. 181
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