GRYLLUS. Then you confess that the souls of beasts are the more perfect, and more fertilely endued for the production of virtue; seeing that without any command or instruction—as it were without sowing or ploughing—it produces and increases that virtue which is requisite for every one.5
Ulysses
ULYSSES. Prithee, Gryllus, don’t rave, but tell me what those virtues are that beasts partake of?
