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Eustathius is addressing the Pythagoreans and Platonists directly, pressing them on whether they themselves drank the mythical water of forgetfulness.
Or the opposite: did you flee and escape notice?If you were able to escape the water of forgetfulness, then clearly many others were too.But if you drew in the common air that belongs to all and drank the water of forgetfulness in gulps, how and from what source do you fabricate myths about souls?How do you know at all the kind of these streams?For if you did not experience their use, you are ignorant of the dispensing of the waters.But if you were within the experience of them, you destroyed the memory of their use by forgetfulness and spat out the knowledge.Yet you turned to these things with barbaric superstition and went astray, using Egyptians as guides.That souls are not unbegotten is shown more clearly by the age of infants just born.