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Oaths

Rhadamanthus imposed on the Cretans the law that men should not swear by the gods, but by the dog, ram, goose, and plane-tree. Hence Socrates would not swear by the gods, but by the dog and goose.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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