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 1 1 |       to be listened to. But an old man who remarks any defect
 2 1 |        the legislator has given old men free licence, there
 3 1 |   commander of men, but only of old women.~Athenian. And what
 4 1 |      Athenian. Then not only an old man but also a drunkard
 5 2 |        new and weariness of the old, has not strength enough
 6 2 | Athenian. And I believe that we old men would have the greatest
 7 2 |      declare that those whom we old men adjudge victors ought
 8 2 |        remain those who are too old to sing, and they will tell
 9 2 |        in a Dionysiac chorus of old men, if you really mean
10 2 |         lighten the sourness of old age; that in age we may
11 2 |       what way these fifty year–old choristers who are to sing,
12 3 |         as you declare, what of old Hesiod only preached.~Cleinias.
13 3 |         were considerable or of old standing.~Megillus. Very
14 3 |      about laws, this being our old man’s sober game of play,
15 3 |       Athenians and Persians of old time, but now they have
16 3 |       will boy or man, young or old, excel in virtue, who has
17 3 |         exhibit and imitate the old so called Titanic nature,
18 4 | selecting the place; in days of old, there was a migration of
19 4 |         try to amuse ourselves, old boys as we are, by moulding
20 4 |         dullest, and when he is old keenest.~Cleinias. Very
21 4 |       say to them,—”God, as the old tradition declares, holding
22 4 |   expressed once for all in the old saying that “like agrees
23 4 |       they bestowed upon him of old, in the days of his infancy,
24 4 |      back to them when they are old and in the extremity of
25 5 | anything disgraceful; for where old men have no shame, there
26 5 |   matters can neither allow the old ways to continue, nor yet
27 5 |       new state or restoring an old and decayed one, in respect
28 5 |         end, there is still the old device often mentioned by
29 5 |       man can ever know, as the old proverb says; but only a
30 6 |         by the grace of God, if old age will only permit us.~
31 6 |      filled with seditions. The old saying, that “equality makes
32 6 |      and he must be fifty years old, and have children lawfully
33 6 |   Athenian. Thus far, then, the old men’s rational pastime has
34 6 |       equally to men and women, old and young—the aim of all
35 7 |         allow any one, young or old, male or female, to be thus
36 7 |     structure falls because the old foundations are undermined.
37 7 |       the young, and making the old to be dishonoured among
38 7 |    young man, and much more any old one, when he sees or hears
39 7 |       selection, and any of the old poems which they deem sufficient
40 7 |     time for a boy of ten years old to spend in letters is three
41 7 |    rightly, that the sixty–year–old choristers of Dionysus were
42 7 |          Cleinias. But how will old man be able to attend to
43 7 |     passing their time than the old man’s game of draughts.~
44 7 |        have explained them all, old as I am, to old men like
45 7 |       them all, old as I am, to old men like yourselves.~Cleinias.
46 8 |          husbandmen have had of old excellent laws about waters,
47 9 |      the errors of children and old men; and these he will treat
48 9 |        the influence of extreme old age, or in a fit of childish
49 9 |         set forth by priests of old; they have pronounced that
50 9 |        a like honour when he is old. Let this be the law:—Every
51 9 |      stranger, whether he be an old inhabitant or newly arrived;
52 9 |      children, whether he be an old man who strikes an old man
53 9 |       an old man who strikes an old man or a young man who strikes
54 10|        in the same until he was old; the two other notions certainly
55 10|    youthful looks, beguiling us old men, give us the slip and
56 10|   Athenian. Do you remember our old admission, that if the soul
57 10|        seen impious men growing old and leaving their children’
58 11|       in time of sickness or in old age and in every other sort
59 11|        on the sea of disease or old age, and persuades you to
60 11|      them, and so live happily; old persons are quick to see
61 11|      are disabled by disease or old age. These things only happen,
62 11|       may have some one to grow old with and that the pair may
63 11|        if their parents live to old age and reach the utmost
64 12|        they will not often grow old in the city or leave a fry
65 12|         any one either young or old desires to travel anywhere
66 12|         mixed body of young and old men, who shall be required
67 12|       any one, whether young or old; and if he will hearken
68 12|     length in due time he grows old under the protection of
69 12|        Cleinias, many things of old time were well said and
70 12|    thoughts—that is to say, the old men—take counsel and making