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1 1 | they are in the field the citizens are by the nature of the
2 1 | state in which the better citizens win a victory over the mob
3 1 | meaning when you say that citizens who are of the same race
4 1 | of his ordinances on the citizens with a view to these, the
5 1 | be to take charge of his citizens, in youth and age, and at
6 1 | has to be careful how the citizens make their money and in
7 1 | the endurance which our citizens show in their naked exercises,
8 1 | hearts even of respectable citizens to melt like wax?~Megillus.
9 1 | to himself, that if our citizens are from their youth upward
10 1 | courage and cowardice of your citizens?”~Cleinias. “I should,”
11 2 | speaking—that their young citizens must be habituated to forms
12 2 | equestrian contests: the citizens are assembled; prizes are
13 2 | make the poets and all the citizens speak in this strain, and
14 2 | about which I should make my citizens speak in a manner different
15 2 | truth; he will persuade the citizens, in some way or other, by
16 3 | first existed and men were citizens of them?~Cleinias. Hardly.~
17 4 | there is some hope that your citizens may be virtuous: had you
18 4 | unfaithful both to her own citizens, and also to other nations.
19 4 | to the best part of the citizens. You may learn the evil
20 4 | can we imagine that the citizens in general will at once
21 4 | kindred and friends and fellow–citizens, and the rites of hospitality
22 4 | Athenian. I should wish the citizens to be as readily persuaded
23 4 | bodies and properties of the citizens, as regards both their occupations
24 5 | the state and his fellow citizens, he is by far the best,
25 5 | God, than wrongs done to citizens; for the stranger, having
26 5 | rulers in correcting the citizens as far as he can—he shall
27 5 | who want to join and be citizens of our state, after we have
28 5 | to be no disputes among citizens about property. If there
29 5 | place, the number of the citizens has to be determined, and
30 5 | as we can. The number of citizens can only be estimated satisfactorily
31 5 | required; and the number of citizens should be sufficient to
32 5 | state. The number of our citizens shall be 5040—this will
33 5 | in a state than that the citizens should be known to one another.
34 5 | origin of the second.~Let the citizens at once distribute their
35 5 | distribute as sons to those citizens who have no children and
36 5 | and there be an excess of citizens, owing to the too great
37 5 | we ought not to introduce citizens of spurious birth and education,
38 5 | use of them. Wherefore our citizens, as we say, should have
39 5 | of our laws was that the citizens should be as happy as may
40 5 | fourth class, in which the citizens will be placed, and they
41 5 | here should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty,
42 5 | legislator shall divide the citizens into twelve parts, and arrange
43 5 | dreams, or making a city and citizens of wax. There is truth in
44 5 | these things and to bid the citizens, as far as possible, not
45 6 | and the remainder from the citizens of Cnosus. Of those latter
46 6 | the way in which the new citizens may be best managed under
47 6 | the whole city, and the citizens shall in like manner select
48 6 | be again exhibited to the citizens; in the third, let any one
49 6 | minae which are allowed to citizens of the first class, three
50 6 | each class. First, all the citizens shall select candidates
51 6 | noted down, for all the citizens to see, and every man shall
52 6 | arises among neighbours or citizens, and any one, whether slave
53 6 | shall be compulsory to go on citizens of the first and second
54 6 | from the second class of citizens, and three first classes
55 6 | elected, who of all the citizens is in every way best; him
56 6 | the causes of his fellow–citizens during the ensuing year
57 6 | and alien among his fellow–citizens, and is still unmarried
58 6 | a compensation; for the citizens of our state are provided
59 6 | Athenian. Now that each of the citizens is provided, as far as possible,
60 6 | leaves the private life of citizens wholly to take care of itself;
61 7 | make the characters of the citizens various and dissimilar:—
62 7 | the whole assembly of the citizens are to offer sacrifices
63 7 | offering sacrifice makes the citizens weep most, carries away
64 7 | as these? And if ever our citizens must hear such lamentations,
65 7 | words, he will make our citizens pray for the opposite of
66 7 | objection to a law, that citizens who are departed and have
67 7 | bad, whether enemies or citizens, and are honoured and reverenced
68 7 | courage into the minds of the citizens. When the day breaks, the
69 7 | assistants in this charge any citizens, male or female, whom he
70 7 | military matters, but that all citizens, male and female alike,
71 7 | Thenceforward the city and the citizens shall continue to have the
72 7 | and I maintain that our citizens and our youth ought to learn
73 8 | behalf of the city, and the citizens, and their possessions.
74 8 | and without. Wherefore the citizens ought to practise war—not
75 8 | his own mind:—Who are my citizens for whom I have set in order
76 8 | if fear is dead then the citizens will never find a test of
77 8 | escaped both of them; for her citizens have the greatest leisure,
78 8 | thinks best for the city and citizens—ordaining what is good and
79 8 | their minds than your and my citizens, and in their bodies far
80 8 | the following terms: Our citizens ought not to fall below
81 8 | What is that?~Athenian. Our citizens should not allow pleasures
82 8 | from sea and land, but our citizens from land only. And this
83 8 | alteration, but let the citizens live in the observance of
84 8 | does wrong to any of the citizens or they do wrong to any
85 8 | In the second place, our citizens should have separate houses
86 8 | whether the articles which the citizens are under regulations to
87 8 | charge on behalf of the citizens, shall produce to the strangers
88 8 | no one shall sell them to citizens or their slaves, nor shall
89 9 | apprehending that some one of our citizens may be like a seed which
90 9 | softened by fire. Among our citizens there may be those who cannot
91 9 | state, for the lots of the citizens ought always to continue
92 9 | defendant, and let all the citizens who can spare time hear
93 9 | appointed lot. And out of the citizens who have more than one son
94 9 | now doing, is giving the citizens education and not laws;
95 9 | various kinds done by the citizens to one another in the intercourse
96 9 | relieve the city of bad citizens. In such cases, and in such
97 9 | Gods or against his fellow–citizens, of which death is the penalty
98 9 | the law; or if any of the citizens be in perpetual exile, and
99 10| intercourse with the other citizens, except with members of
100 10| children who are fit to be citizens, let the guardians of orphans
101 11| advising the great body of the citizens to honour the brave men
102 11| to say to our departing citizens.~Cleinias. What?~Athenian.
103 11| would choose out of all the citizens a son for himself, and a
104 11| guardians any one of the citizens who is willing and whom
105 11| single one of the eldest citizens shall be the judges, and
106 11| turn the laugh against our citizens? or do we draw the distinction
107 11| permitted to ridicule any of the citizens, either by word or likeness,
108 12| has been brought up as our citizens will have been, if he be
109 12| and they only of all the citizens shall be adorned with a
110 12| different from the other citizens. They shall be decked in
111 12| deciding causes between all citizens be the same as in cases
112 12| strangers, and from the citizens themselves rushing off into
113 12| others, and for their own citizens never to go to other places,
114 12| Nemea and to the Isthmus,—citizens should be sent to take part
115 12| the guardians, being such citizens as desire to look a little
116 12| civilized, nor, again, can the citizens of a city properly observe
117 12| These are they whom the citizens of a well ordered city should
118 12| should send forth her own citizens, showing respect to Zeus,
119 12| be kept a secret from the citizens at large; and, more especially,
120 12| bad, and others that the citizens should be rich, not caring
121 12| the guardians of the other citizens, to excel the rest of mankind,
122 12| of our state? Are all our citizens to be equal in acquirements,
123 12| indeed excuse the mass of the citizens, who only follow the voice
124 12| image, in the hope that our citizens might be duly mingled and
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