[620c]
After her, he said, he
saw the soul of Epeius,1 the son of Panopeus,
entering into the nature of an arts and crafts woman. Far off in the rear he
saw the soul of the buffoon Thersites2 clothing itself in the body
of an ape. And it fell out that the soul of Odysseus drew the last lot of
all and came to make its choice, and, from memory of its former toils having
flung away ambition, went about for a long time in quest of the life of an
ordinary citizen who minded his own business,3 and with difficulty found it lying in some
corner disregarded by the others,
1 Who built the Trojan horse. See Hesychius s.v.
2 Cf. Iliad ii. 212 ff.
3 For ἀπράγμονος cf. on 565 A, p. 316, note b.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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