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1 1 | a name; in reality every city is in a natural state of
2 1 | was speaking of a man or a city being inferior to themselves:—
3 1 | colonists I have seen the whole city drunk at a Dionysiac festival;
4 1 | according to its rule; while the city, receiving the same from
5 2 | none.~Athenian. Then in a city which has good laws, or
6 2 | taught lay to the whole city. Next will follow the choir
7 2 | both sexes, and the whole city, should never cease charming
8 2 | will that best part of our city which, by reason of age
9 2 | I should say that if a city seriously means to adopt
10 2 | agree or allow that this city or this man should practise
11 2 | that time, and that in the city no slave, male or female,
12 2 | if what I say is true, no city will need many vineyards.
13 3 | built on the plain to be a city of speaking men; but they
14 3 | rendering assistance, while the city of Argos, which had the
15 3 | emphatically declares that no city can be well governed which
16 3 | in view: first, that the city for which he legislates
17 3 | Dorian army, and of the city built by Dardanus at the
18 3 | are constructing, for the city which is in contemplation.~
19 4 | And now, what will this city be? I do not mean to ask
20 4 | name to the newly–founded city; but I do want to know what
21 4 | imagine, Stranger, that the city of which we are speaking
22 4 | so?~Athenian. Because no city ought to be easily able
23 4 | that you have never seen a city which is under a tyranny?~
24 4 | may be a difficulty for a city to have good laws, but that
25 4 | are we going to give the city?~Cleinias. Tell us what
26 4 | destroyed, and his family and city with him. Wherefore, seeing
27 5 | And so he makes the whole city to enter the arena untrained
28 5 | example, the purification of a city—there are many kinds of
29 5 | dangerous contention, and a city which is driven by necessity
30 5 | justice—upon this rock our city shall be built; for there
31 5 | at the foundation of the city, with a view to use. Whether
32 5 | are to be built in each city, and the Gods or demi–gods
33 5 | care, he will see that our city is ordered in a manner which,
34 5 | laws there are unite the city to the utmost—whether all
35 5 | also belong to the whole city; and seeing that the earth
36 5 | be secured for the whole city in the following manner:—
37 5 | legislator desires to have the city the best and happiest possible.
38 5 | not to be allowed in the city, nor much of the vulgar
39 5 | to be noted is, that the city should be placed as nearly
40 5 | possesses what is suitable for a city, and this may easily be
41 5 | Then we will divide the city into twelve portions, first
42 5 | the division of the entire city and country radiate from
43 5 | sections; one of land near the city, the other of land which
44 5 | section which is near the city shall be added to that which
45 5 | twelve divisions of the city in the same way in which
46 5 | situation of the land with the city in the middle and dwellings
47 5 | his dreams, or making a city and citizens of wax. There
48 6 | matter, yet if a well–ordered city superadd to good laws unsuitable
49 6 | daring creation this our city is.~Cleinias. What had you
50 6 | Megillus take a part in our new city?~Athenian. O, Cleinias,
51 6 | but in after–ages, if the city continues to exist, let
52 6 | magistrates to the whole city, and the citizens shall
53 6 | by their care of the new city; and there is a similar
54 6 | on the part of the young city towards Cnosus. And I repeat
55 6 | return home, and the new city do the best she can for
56 6 | men who are natives of the city, and a selection from the
57 6 | this rule order the new city which is now being founded,
58 6 | being founded, and any other city which may be hereafter founded.
59 6 | and day, in like manner a city also is sailing on a sea
60 6 | asked by other cities, a city should give an answer, and
61 6 | making them known to the city, and healing the evil. Wherefore,
62 6 | portions.~Thus will the city be fairly ordered. And now,
63 6 | arrangement? Seeing that the whole city and the entire country have
64 6 | superintendents of the streets of the city, and of the houses, and
65 6 | appointed, in order that the city may be suitably provided
66 6 | who have the care of the city shall be called wardens
67 6 | be called wardens of the city; and those who have the
68 6 | the foundation of a new city, priests and priestesses
69 6 | manner in every place and city, that the state may be as
70 6 | Let the defence of the city be commited to the generals,
71 6 | and the wardens of the city, and of the agora, when
72 6 | deemed to have betrayed the city, as far as lay in his power,
73 6 | of the agora and of the city. The wardens of the country
74 6 | and the wardens of the city will be three, and will
75 6 | the twelve parts of the city into three; like the former,
76 6 | of the country into the city, and of the buildings, that
77 6 | ornament and a benefit to the city. These also should be men
78 6 | propose as warden of the city any one whom he likes out
79 6 | election of the wardens of the city:—these when they have undergone
80 6 | consent of the wardens of the city up to double that amount.
81 6 | And let the wardens of the city have a similar power of
82 6 | for neglect to do so.~A city which has no regular courts
83 6 | courts of law ceases to be a city; and again, if a judge is
84 6 | revolution of the universe. Every city has a guiding and sacred
85 6 | tribes, and twelve for the city, according to their divisions;
86 6 | be for the benefit of the city and of the families which
87 6 | and in this way the whole city becomes unequal in property
88 6 | difficulty in perceiving that the city ought to be well mingled
89 6 | Very good.~Athenian. The city being new and hitherto uninhabited,
90 6 | the agora, and the whole city built on the heights in
91 6 | the first that the whole city may be one wall, having
92 6 | streets. The form of the city being that of a single dwelling
93 6 | and the wardens of the city should superintend the work,
94 6 | all that relates to the city they should have a care
95 6 | either within or without the city. The guardians of the law
96 6 | bridegroom ought to live in a city which is to be superior
97 7 | pursuits, for by these means a city is bound together, and all
98 7 | before the wardens of the city; or, if there be no dispute,
99 7 | who at the moment when the city is offering sacrifice makes
100 7 | these the newly–founded city may freely select what is
101 7 | places in the midst of the city; and outside the city and
102 7 | the city; and outside the city and in the surrounding country,
103 7 | they should fight for their city and families, unlike the
104 7 | perpetual watchmen of the whole city; for that any citizen should
105 7 | business, as magistrates in the city, and masters and mistresses
106 7 | management of house and city, and, looking to the same
107 7 | natural order, and keep the city alive and awake, the Gods
108 7 | should have to leave the city and carry on operations
109 7 | young and the rest of the city may be equal to the task;
110 7 | for the possession of the city, which is far from being
111 7 | peaceful, and not suited for a city at all. There let it lie;
112 7 | song. Thenceforward the city and the citizens shall continue
113 7 | strangers, may we go to your city and country or may we not,
114 8 | will be for the good of the city, and to what Gods they shall
115 8 | demi–god on behalf of the city, and the citizens, and their
116 8 | should consider, that our city among existing cities has
117 8 | individuals in this, for a city if good has a life of peace,
118 8 | are at peace. And every city which has any sense, should
119 8 | I have set in order the city? Are they not competitors
120 8 | shall the warriors of our city, who are destined when occasion
121 8 | property, and the whole city, be worse prepared than
122 8 | respectively, may prepare the whole city for the true conflict of
123 8 | that is one reason why a city will not be in earnest about
124 8 | what he thinks best for the city and citizens—ordaining what
125 8 | how one is to deal with a city in which youths and maidens
126 8 | children, throughout the city:—that will be the surest
127 8 | two sources, whereas our city has only one. For most of
128 8 | call in a warden of the city, if he be in the city, or
129 8 | the city, if he be in the city, or if he be in the country,
130 8 | before the wardens of the city, and claim in writing the
131 8 | Let the wardens of the city labour to maintain this
132 8 | let the wardens of the city decide the case; but if
133 8 | importation and exportation; the city shall send them out and
134 8 | any other articles, in the city or country at all.~With
135 8 | who may be dwelling in the city, and like other men must
136 8 | they shall establish in the city, and this, again, they shall
137 8 | twelve districts of the city, and the remainder shall
138 8 | And the wardens of the city shall see to similar matters
139 8 | to similar matters in the city.~Now the wardens of the
140 8 | wardens of the market and city, choosing according to their
141 8 | him go and persuade the city, and whatever they assent
142 9 | the laws, and subjects the city to factions, using violence
143 9 | death. Such persons the city shall send away with all
144 9 | their possessions to the city and country of their ancestors,
145 9 | then if he can persuade the city, or if he will pay back
146 9 | about legislating for the city of the Magnetes—shall we
147 9 | and they would relieve the city of bad citizens. In such
148 9 | stranger who is dwelling in the city, he who likes shall prosecute
149 9 | first comes across in the city, release him and send him
150 9 | continues to dwell in the city, having his soul not pure
151 9 | appointed place without the city where three ways meet, and
152 9 | magistrates on behalf of the whole city shall take a stone and cast
153 9 | man, and so deliver the city from pollution; after that,
154 9 | evils both him and the whole city. For if a man were born
155 9 | emigrate to a neighbouring city for the rest of his life,
156 9 | the sufferer, but also the city, and makes him incapable
157 9 | assaulted by a younger in the city; and it is reasonable that
158 9 | him to the wardens of the city, but let him not strike
159 9 | and let the wardens of the city take the offender and examine
160 9 | or if somewhere in the city beyond the limits of the
161 9 | agora, any warden of the city is in residence shall punish
162 9 | for ever banished from the city into the country, and let
163 9 | the agora, nor into the city, until he is purified; for
164 9 | the law, and pollutes the city and the temples contrary
165 11| tell the wardens of the city, if the occurrence has taken
166 11| occurrence has taken place in the city, or if the occurrence has
167 11| information has been received the city shall send to Delphi, and,
168 11| remover of the money, that the city shall do in obedience to
169 11| metic, sojourning in the city, within thirty days, or,
170 11| required to remain in the city for ten days, and the purchaser
171 11| about the wardens of the city, and if anything seems to
172 11| court of the wardens of the city the primary and secondary
173 11| afterwards. Retail trade in a city is not by nature intended
174 11| shamelessness. What remedy can a city of sense find against this
175 11| among the Magnetes, whose city the God is restoring and
176 11| trader who dwells in our city may be as good or as little
177 11| and by the wardens of the city, and by the wardens of the
178 11| Zeus the guardian of the city and Athene, who are the
179 11| no kindred living in the city, and there is some one who
180 11| having no kinsmen within the city, and he be chosen by the
181 11| high in honour; wherever a city is well ordered and prosperous,
182 11| guardian of the law for the city and for the country in his
183 11| terms:—If any one in this city be not sufficiently careful
184 11| shall not be at large in the city, but his relations shall
185 11| any tolerably well–ordered city or government. Wherefore
186 11| and the wardens of the city out of the city, and the
187 11| wardens of the city out of the city, and the wardens of the
188 12| a false message from our city to any other, or bring back
189 12| a false message from the city to which he is sent, or
190 12| direction, but fill the city with faction, and make many
191 12| summer solstice, the whole city shall meet in the common
192 12| to all the world that the city of the Magnetes, by providence
193 12| measure of time as long as the city lasts; and after their death
194 12| not often grow old in the city or leave a fry of young
195 12| to the officers whom the city and the law empower to exact
196 12| and the money given to the city; but if they ought to pay
197 12| and they will make the city renowned at holy meetings
198 12| law shall hinder. For a city which has no experience
199 12| again, can the citizens of a city properly observe the laws
200 12| citizens of a well ordered city should be ever seeking out,
201 12| examination and enquiry a city will never continue perfect
202 12| about the laws of their own city or about any specially good
203 12| invited him. The rest of the city shall watch over those among
204 12| public buildings, near the city but outside, by those magistrates
205 12| in like manner to another city. Let such an one, then,
206 12| according to which our city should receive all strangers
207 12| with him the wardens of the city, and so make his search,
208 12| family and the wardens of the city, he shall seal them up again
209 12| and openly shown in the city and in the agora and in
210 12| in the market or in the city, but only in the country,
211 12| or if he uses them in the city but within the house, then
212 12| And if any fraction of the City declare war or peace against
213 12| rule.~Now that the whole city has been divided into parts
214 12| thus make himself and the city stand upright, procuring
215 12| receiving praise from the whole city.~When the suits of the year
216 12| they should be outside the city. Let these, then, be our
217 12| that there must be in our city a council which was to be
218 12| anchor of the state, our city, having everything which
219 12| has found his way into the city, or some chance person who
220 12| knowledge of virtue, the city being unguarded should experience
221 12| there any way in which our city can be made to resemble
222 12| Do we not see that the city is the trunk, and are not
223 12| they look about the whole city? They keep watch and hand
224 12| all that happens in the city; and those whom we compared
225 12| respecting the Gods; our city is forbidden and not allowed
226 12| if you order rightly the city of the Magnetes, or whatever
227 12| them we will hand over the city; none of the present company
228 12| in the foundation of the city, or we must give up the
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