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1 6 | council shall consist of 30 x 12 members—360 will be
2 6 | first, to the number of 300, shall be shown by the magistrates
3 6 | consist of 30 x 12 members—360 will be a convenient number
4 8 | let the whole number be 365—one for every day—so that
5 6 | 5040/(21 X 20), i.e., 5040/420=12], also has them. And
6 9 | priests, shall appoint a 5040th citizen to be the heir of
7 11| injustice, or at any rate abate much of their evil–doing.
8 10| Who can avoid hating and abhorring the men who are and have
9 8 | holiness and innocence, abiding firmly in their original
10 7 | servitude makes men mean and abject, and haters of their kind,
11 10| thirdly, she is without such abody, but guides the sun by some
12 5 | division of land and the abolition of debts; for these are
13 1 | in which you say that you abominate those~Who refuse to look
14 12| silence of judges and the abstinence from words of evil omen
15 5 | foully and disgracefully abusing his soul, which is the divinest
16 12| poets took occasion to be abusive—comparing the philosophers
17 10| more criminal sink into the abyss, that is to say, into Hades
18 11| the law speaks in serious accents, both of persuasion and
19 6 | inaccessible to enemies, and as accessible as possible to friends;
20 4 | may be determined by the accident of locality or of the original
21 4 | man never legislates, but accidents of all sorts, which legislate
22 4 | his end. Justice always accompanies him, and is the punisher
23 12| words they will be their accomplices in purloining large sums
24 3 | them.~Cleinias. That quite accords with my views, and with
25 8 | grant that these loves are accounted by law to be honourable,
26 11| in the country, which has accrued after the testament has
27 1 | mean to ask what great good accrues to the state from the right
28 2 | they will attain a more accurate knowledge than falls to
29 9 | blow, and the other from an accursed fate and calamity—as a thank–
30 10| assume that some one is accusing us among unholy men, who
31 12| word, not teach the soul or accustom her to know or understand
32 12| say, thrice six or thrice ace, and I am willing to share
33 3 | what great results would he achieve!”~Megillus. And would he
34 12| security in a distinct form, acknowledging the whole transaction in
35 2 | we begin, then, with the acknowledgment that education is first
36 5 | spot which we will call the Acropolis, and surround with a circular
37 11| if he be judged to have acted more than once from contentiousness,
38 8 | all qualities is general activity of body, whether of foot
39 2 | Cleinias. What?~Athenian. The adaptation of art to the characters
40 6 | judges shall determine what additional punishment he shall suffer,
41 8 | lusts as contrary to nature, adducing the animals as a proof that
42 10| with mortal eyes, or know adequately the nature of mind;—it will
43 2 | festivals, that he should be adjudged the wisest of men, and the
44 5 | are assigned to them to administer.~But, before all this, comes
45 1 | we have now done, and I admired the spirit of your exposition;
46 10| Do you remember our old admission, that if the soul was prior
47 8 | language and song, and in the admixture of harmony with rhythm and
48 10| all the other accidental admixtures of opposites which have
49 6 | as they deserve, and not admonished as if they were freemen,
50 1 | fearless, exhorting and admonishing them; and also honouring
51 7 | just now mentioned, and, adopting them, may order his house
52 11| another citizen, let the adoption be inscribed. And if he
53 12| but to the statesman who adopts custom as his law we must
54 11| statues of them which we adore; and though they are lifeless,
55 12| all the citizens shall be adorned with a crown of laurel;
56 12| should only be used for the adornments of war. The most divine
57 11| about the rogueries and adulterations of the sellers, and shall
58 8 | madness of love, and from all adulteries and immoderate use of meats
59 10| you are young, and the advance of time will make you reverse
60 5 | has no friend, and as time advances he becomes known, and lays
61 2 | Athenian. When a man is advancing in years, he is afraid and
62 11| the law, let him bring his adversaries into the court of the select
63 8 | at that. Or if we had no adversary at all, animate or inanimate,
64 5 | and are propitious, not adverse, to the settlers in them.
65 11| reproach upon the succour of adversity. And the legislator ought
66 11| malpractices of law and dishonest advocacy, and let him be judged in
67 4 | have come from Argos and Aegina and other parts of Hellas.
68 3 | entrusted the management of the affair to the Cnosians; and the
69 10| force according to certain affinities among them—of hot with cold,
70 8 | this fact has been often affirmed positively by the ancients
71 4 | of them, and perpetually afflicted with an endless and insatiable
72 5 | good men, that whatever afflictions are to befall them in the
73 5 | they in whom generation is affluent may be made to refrain,
74 11| the protection which is afforded by these laws.~And if a
75 4 | is introduced, rebuking Agamemnon because he desires to draw
76 6 | up, and exhibit it in the Agara for a period of not less
77 9 | his own hand, or by the agency of others, he shall be deemed
78 4 | now speaking are merely aggregations of men dwelling in cities
79 7 | some one applies external agitation to affections of this sort,
80 3 | imprecations that he is introducing agrarian laws and cancelling of debts,
81 11| honour his own parents, agreeably to what has now been said.
82 7 | but those whom he finds agreeing in his judgment, he shall
83 4 | the old saying that “like agrees with like, with measure
84 2 | as when men are sick and ailing in their bodies, their attendants
85 9 | a third of hopes, which aimed at true opinion about the
86 10| Who knows but we may be aiming at the greater, and fail
87 7 | regarders of omens should take alarm about our infant state.
88 4 | not be better.~Athenian. Alas! what a prospect! And is
89 6 | and remains unsocial and alien among his fellow–citizens,
90 8 | should by toil divert the aliment and exuberance of them into
91 1 | has a class of laws about allotments and heiresses, another about
92 5 | of legislation.~Let the allottee then hold his lot upon the
93 2 | masters of choruses do, is not allowable, although you can speak
94 7 | difficulties to which you allude, but I am still more afraid
95 12| to which we were just now alluding?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
96 7 | constantly hearing them read aloud, and always learning them,
97 7 | taught when he learns the alphabet. In that country arithmetical
98 5 | continue, nor yet venture to alter them. We must have recourse
99 10| altering them; and that the alterations which are made by art and
100 10| disputing about them and altering them; and that the alterations
101 7 | ought to be the view of our alumni; they ought to think that
102 7 | longer agree, Cleinias: you amaze me. To bring him up in such
103 7 | Athenian. Nay, Megillus, be not amazed, but forgive me:—I was comparing
104 7 | late in life heard with amazement of our ignorance in these
105 7 | and families, unlike the Amazons, they would be unable to
106 9 | you clearly, and without ambiguity, what I mean by the just
107 1 | the meaning of education ambiguous or ill–defined. At present,
108 8 | upon posts and lying in ambush, and imitating in every
109 7 | in which they are to be amended and consecrated. But we
110 11| lose his suit, let him make amends for the injury, and give
111 5 | we are compelled to act amiss ourselves. Wherefore let
112 5 | Delphi, or Dodona, or the God Ammon, or any ancient tradition
113 3 | Olympus invented music, and Amphion the lyre—not to speak of
114 7 | of boxing which Epeius or Amycus invented, are useless and
115 11| ratified by the Gods, and Amyntor in his wrath invoked curses
116 4 | an exhortation, likewise analogous to the preamble of a discourse.
117 12| being commanded by others; anarchy should have no place in
118 12| we let it down to be the anchor of the state, our city,
119 7 | hunting in the sea, or of angling or of catching the creatures
120 8 | had no adversary at all, animate or inanimate, should we
121 9 | already enacted would seem to announce principles directly opposed
122 10| the fact, which shall be announced by him to the guardians
123 12| public officers may use annuary whichever on consideration
124 6 | in doing so, let him be answerable and give an account of the.
125 7 | wrestling, the tricks which Antaeus and Cercyon devised in their
126 1 | counsellors, both foolish and also antagonistic; of which we call the one
127 9 | must legislate for him by anticipation, and threaten and make laws
128 12| have in his mind as the antidote of all other words, and
129 2 | plea that they have become antiquated. At any rate, they are far
130 11| which causes a great deal of anxiety and trouble to the legislator.~
131 10| to husbandmen observing anxiously the effects of the seasons
132 | anyhow
133 1 | But first let me make an apology. The Athenian citizen is
134 7 | strains at all; and let the apparel of the singers be, not circlets
135 7 | wonder if we find that many apparently trifling customs or usages
136 2 | same lips which have just appealed to the Gods before he judged.
137 10| necessity prior to those which appertain to the body?~Cleinias. Certainly.~
138 12| fittingly be performed, whether appertaining to the Gods of the underworld
139 6 | satisfy all his pleasures and appetites, and get rid of all the
140 2 | cannot delight in them or applaud them, and they call them
141 2 | feeling pleasure in them and applauding them, and calling them beautiful.
142 3 | as in our days, nor in applause and clapping of hands. But
143 8 | modes of punishment, and applications for suits, and summonses
144 5 | houses will then have to be apportioned by us as fairly as we can.
145 6 | number, which regulates and apportions them. But there is another
146 7 | are therefore incapable of appreciating any sort of instruction?~
147 7 | of them, must be rightly apprehended first; and these leading
148 9 | without malice prepense, approaches to the involuntary; and
149 2 | or any good done to the approver of the opposite sort of
150 1 | adduce their witnesses and approvers, and some of us think that
151 6 | litigants, as is the case in arbitrations, he will never be able to
152 6 | names of the successive archons by whom the years are reckoned.
153 8 | vintage which coincides with Arcturus, either on his own land
154 4 | observe, there are Cretans of Argive descent; and the race of
155 10| I think that we have now argued enough with him who delights
156 3 | not even the portion of Aristodemus would have been preserved;
157 7 | alphabet. In that country arithmetical games have been invented
158 7 | about tucked beneath their armpits, holding the smaller birds
159 5 | expedient and what will arouse opposition; for surely the
160 8 | of the stranger, and when aroused, terrible are the wars which
161 11| fears which the sorcerer arouses, and to tell them in the
162 2 | invented dancing; and melody arousing and awakening rhythm, both
163 6 | of this matter, and the arranging and ordering on a common
164 7 | to all the Gods in goodly array, armed and on horseback,
165 9 | threaten and rebuke the man who arrested him, and let them both go.
166 6 | These, I say, on their arrival, should have a joint care
167 7 | the left hand and draw the arrow to them with their right,
168 1 | when running, and bows and arrows are convenient because they
169 8 | to a temple of Apollo and Artemis; this shall be the order
170 4 | sea–fights of Salamis and Artemisium—for I may as well put them
171 12| pay twice the value of the article. If the master be absent
172 10| which are generally termed artificial.~Cleinias. How is that?~
173 4 | overtures, which are a sort of artistic beginnings intended to help
174 4 | Cleinias. The lawgiver, if he asks my opinion, will certainly
175 6 | dwelling will have an agreeable aspect, and being easily guarded
176 11| feminine habit of casting aspersions on one another, and using
177 5 | ruler, nor any one else who aspires after a reputation for virtue,
178 3 | proverb says, fall off our ass. Let us then once more ask
179 10| profane will be likely to assail us. For you do not understand
180 8 | breath of opposition ever assails it, has a marvellous power.~
181 9 | Gods to see an elder man assaulted by a younger in the city;
182 9 | any one is found guilty of assaulting a parent, let him in the
183 7 | yet much of what has been asserted by us, Stranger is contrary
184 10| there would be impiety in asserting that any but the most perfect
185 10| Athenian. Then are the three assertions—that the Gods exist, and
186 9 | they shall entrust the assessment of damages to the parents,
187 7 | giving laws and when he assigns praise and blame. This is
188 3 | preventing her from rendering assistance, while the city of Argos,
189 10| of art, and is based on assumptions which are not true.~Cleinias.
190 4 | he rushes off with equal assurance to some other servant who
191 3 | relied upon the power of the Assyrians and the Empire of Ninus,
192 12| ought to be, if it can be.~Ast. Well, and about the good
193 2 | would there be anything astonishing in some one imagining that
194 8 | same is said of Crison and Astylus and Diopompus and many others;
195 1 | man privately his own.~(Ath. My good sir, what do you
196 12| studies gave rise to much atheism and perplexity, and the
197 9 | homicides. If any one in an athletic contest, and at the public
198 3 | Hellespont, and the canal of Athos, and the host of ships,
199 10| who live in a different atmosphere would never guess.~Cleinias.
200 10| but upon doing them and atoning for them. When lawgivers
201 11| life, but to most of them attach evils which are fated to
202 3 | among all the Persians, and attaching the people to him with money
203 1 | one leg, able only to meet attacks which come from the left,
204 12| which a little while ago we attempted to create as a dream and
205 11| cannot reproach them without attempting to ridicule them; and this,
206 12| or death. But as regards attendance at choruses or processions
207 8 | of the Gods, and of their attendant demigods; and if there be
208 4 | eternal beauty is always attending, and dismisses everything
209 4 | doctor, who is a freeman, attends and practises upon freemen;
210 2 | will have to be considered attentively, or we may be entangled
211 7 | suit of armour, and in this attire go through the dance; and
212 9 | always is and will be in the attitude of forbidding him. And if
213 10| affinity to them, which attracts you towards your kindred
214 1 | are many opinions, is an attribute of the Gods not given to
215 10| these philosophers have the audacity to affirm, all things were
216 6 | account of the. money at his audit. He who refuses to marry
217 12| learning what is just in auspicious words; and he who does otherwise
218 3 | at this moment want; most auspiciously have you and my friend Megillus
219 6 | judgment of Zeus; among men it avails but little; that little,
220 8 | men should entertain no aversion, but they should honour
221 7 | as is necessary for the avoidance of impiety; but if we cannot,
222 10| refuses to do injustice, and avoids unrighteous men, and loves
223 4 | there was no disgrace in not awaiting the attack of an enemy and
224 10| which you now hold. Wait awhile, and do not attempt to judge
225 10| because they turn upon their axis; and whenever they meet
226 10| which they have heard as babes and sucklings from their
227 3 | lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate
228 4 | extremely rich wife, and she bade me bury her and describe
229 2 | wine was given him as a balm, and in order to implant
230 6 | lawless life of the Italian banditti, as they are called. A man
231 6 | the superintendents of the bands of twelve. While on service
232 12| words, such as xenelasia or banishment of strangers, and who have
233 10| leaving you in safety on the bank, I am to examine whether
234 2 | ought to enact laws of the banquet, which, when a man is confident,
235 1 | Athenian. Reflect; may not banqueters and banquets be said to
236 1 | may not banqueters and banquets be said to constitute a
237 3 | the help of tradition to barbarism.~Athenian. Yes, he does
238 7 | departed at funerals with barbarous Carian chants. That is the
239 1 | of injustice, by making bargains with him at a risk to yourself,
240 12| years the claim shall be barred for ever after; or if he
241 8 | seed among harlots, or in barren and unnatural lusts; or
242 5 | too few, as in the case of barrenness—in all these cases let the
243 2 | he will of necessity live basely? You will surely grant so
244 8 | sow the unconsecrated and bastard seed among harlots, or in
245 6 | for themselves, and warm baths for the aged, placing by
246 8 | one of boys, another of beardless youths, and a third of men.
247 11| with impunity chastise and beat the swearer, but if instead
248 1 | prospect of getting a good beating; there is, too, the so–called
249 6 | temples of the Gods, and so beautify them at all seasons of the
250 3 | abundance of clothing, and bedding, and dwellings, and utensils
251 1 | their foot, and are without beds to lie upon, and have to
252 8 | husbandmen and shepherds and bee–keepers, and to the guardians
253 5 | whatever afflictions are to befall them in the future God will
254 5 | many and great evils which befell him in consequence, and
255 5 | purified them in a manner which befits a community of animals;
256 6 | fortune in our prayers, and beg that they themselves will
257 6 | and has been; or that it began an immense while ago.~Cleinias.
258 11| following terms:—Let there be no beggars in our state; and if anybody
259 9 | gatherers of stones or beginners of some composite work,
260 1 | When a man drinks wine he begins to be better pleased with
261 11| our state; and if anybody begs, seeking to pick up a livelihood
262 10| after they were born they behaved to one another. Whether
263 11| heat; and then instead of behaving to them as friends, and
264 7 | inspect—they shall see to the behaviour of the company, and so dismiss
265 11| which of the litigants it belonged, let him take it and go
266 4 | biddest to drag the well–benched ships into the sea, that
267 11| contrary; for is not he a benefactor who reduces the inequalities
268 7 | person, that all bodies are benefited by shakings and movements,
269 7 | cultivate gentleness and benevolence and kindness.~Cleinias.
270 7 | just spoke of as gentle and benign, and is a state which we
271 10| pretty much what he is by the bent of his desires and the nature
272 5 | sorrow. Let parents, then, bequeath to their children not a
273 5 | appointed number by reason of bereavement, we ought not to introduce
274 11| and wrongs any one who is bereft of father or mother, shall
275 10| must.~Athenian. And now, I beseech you, reflect;—you would
276 10| talking to the Gods, and beseeching them, as though they were
277 7 | fears and terrors which beset us, may be said to be an
278 3 | Ilium, the homes of the besiegers were falling into an evil
279 3 | which the Achaeans were besieging Ilium, the homes of the
280 4 | throwing away his arms, and betaking himself to flight—which
281 3 | size of their cities, and betook themselves to husbandry,
282 10| excellence, who would never betray justice for the sake of
283 4 | the battle is in full cry, biddest to drag the well–benched
284 10| are not such as the law bids them imagine; and hence
285 9 | public good (for public good binds together states, but private
286 6 | honour, or go to nuptial and birthday festivals, if she in like
287 3 | run away, but held with bit and bridle, and then we
288 10| blackness and whiteness, bitterness and sweetness, and all those
289 7 | the neighbourhood of the Black Sea, called Sauromatides,
290 10| hardness and softness, blackness and whiteness, bitterness
291 7 | pious language, and not to blaspheme about them.~Cleinias. There
292 7 | over the victims, horribly blasphemes, will not his words inspire
293 7 | forth all sorts of horrible blasphemies on the sacred rites, exciting
294 2 | this is intolerable and blasphemous; there is, however, a much
295 5 | himself contends in the race, blasting the fair fame of no man;
296 12| responses, declaring their blessedness in song all day long; and
297 7 | leaves half of life only blest with happiness, when he
298 1 | fourth is wealth, not the blind god [Pluto], but one who
299 5 | offences; for the lover is blinded about the beloved, so that
300 12| provided it be a single block, and in like manner of stone,
301 2 | have him “look calmly upon bloody death,” nor “surpass in
302 9 | saved the one from a fatal blow, and the other from an accursed
303 1 | witchcraft has no place at our board. But is there any potion
304 1 | excessive and indiscreet boasting?~Cleinias. I suppose that
305 1 | case of the Milesian, and Boeotian, and Thurian youth, among
306 3 | multitude with lawlessness and boldness, and made them fancy that
307 8 | excess be registered in the books of the guardians of the
308 9 | another, but there is a borderland which comes in between,
309 2 | in swiftness the Thracian Boreas”; and let no other thing
310 3 | impossible victory, and borne up by this hope, they found
311 5 | money upon interest; and the borrower should be under no obligation
312 1 | each one of us has in his bosom two counsellors, both foolish
313 8 | boundaries. Let no one shift the boundary line either of a fellow–
314 11| desert places and builds bouses which can only be reached
315 3 | into music and drinking–bouts, the argument has, providentially,
316 8 | the other hand, the Cretan bowman or javelin–man who fights
317 4 | indeed also a bitter and brackish quality; filling the streets
318 5 | one extreme makes the soul braggart and insolent, and the other,
319 2 | Athenian. Our young men break forth into dancing and singing,
320 8 | saying that tradition, if no breath of opposition ever assails
321 5 | shepherd or herdsman, or breeder of horses or the like, when
322 9 | where the power of wealth breeds endless desires of never–
323 7 | the nature of Geryon or Briareus he ought to be able with
324 10| like charioteers who are bribed to give up the victory to
325 6 | uninstructed in the laws of bridal song. Drunkenness is always
326 6 | going to enact that the bridegrooms should live at the common
327 3 | Marathon; and hearing of the bridge over the Hellespont, and
328 3 | away, but held with bit and bridle, and then we shall not,
329 7 | must be bound with many bridles; in the first place, when
330 7 | explain them to you in a brief space of time; whereas if
331 6 | horse, and commanders of brigades of foot, who would be more
332 6 | artist, and who will further brighten up and improve the picture,
333 6 | which are always being made brighter and more beautiful.~Cleinias.
334 1 | fancying himself wise, he is brimming over with lawlessness, and
335 5 | escape, whether narrow or broad, can be devised but freedom
336 6 | time later when the tie is broken, still, while he is in want
337 9 | praise of wealth which is bruited about both among Hellenes
338 3 | himself, mad with wine and brutality, lost his kingdom through
339 10| who may be compared to brute animals, which fawn upon
340 2 | swiftness and smoothness and a brutish noise, and uses the flute
341 6 | superintendents of roads and buddings, who will have a care of
342 4 | therefore they could not readily build them. Hence they could not
343 1 | he who is to be a good builder, should play at building
344 11| goes to desert places and builds bouses which can only be
345 8 | there are grapes on the bunch, or figs on the fig–tree.
346 8 | valiant sort into thieves and burglars and robbers of temples,
347 12| are interdicted from other burials, let priests and priestesses
348 7 | and the victims are being burnt according to law—if, I say,
349 9 | nature of the body, he would burst into a hearty laugh—he would
350 4 | rich wife, and she bade me bury her and describe her burial
351 10| if any freeman assist in burying him, let him pay the penalty
352 8 | called retail trade. And butchers shall offer for sale parts
353 2 | the story of the Sidonian Cadmus, which is so improbable,
354 12| defence? Tradition says that Caeneus, the Thessalian, was changed
355 6 | animal sacrifices, but only cakes and fruits dipped in honey,
356 9 | childless and portionless when calamities such as these overtake him.~
357 7 | should ordain festivals—calculating for the year what they ought
358 8 | are destined when occasion calli to enter the greatest of
359 11| compelled to follow similar callings, then we should know how
360 2 | would not have him “look calmly upon bloody death,” nor “
361 2 | which is modelled after the camp, and is not like that of
362 2 | no one while he is on a campaign should be allowed to taste
363 3 | the Hellespont, and the canal of Athos, and the host of
364 3 | introducing agrarian laws and cancelling of debts, until a man is
365 12| especially, from the rejected candidate. The meeting of the council
366 11| Thou shalt not, if thou canst help, touch that which is
367 12| Athenian. You follow me capitally, Cleinias, and I would ask
368 3 | orders to carry them away captive; and these orders he was
369 11| treats them as enemies and captives who are at his mercy, and
370 3 | Great King. And the second capture of Troy was a serious offence
371 8 | hand. For escaping or for capturing an enemy, quickness of foot
372 2 | cowardice and unmanliness carelessly to deliver a lying judgment,
373 8 | wantonness, and whose only cares during their whole life
374 7 | funerals with barbarous Carian chants. That is the sort
375 12| citizens should be rich, not caring whether they are the slaves
376 11| an unmeaning sound in the cars of any one, let the law
377 1 | your performances “on the cart,” as they are called; and
378 11| and the feminine habit of casting aspersions on one another,
379 9 | free from guilt:—If a man catch a thief coming, into his
380 11| according to the customs and cautions of the wardens of the agora,
381 5 | that a slight change may be cautiously effected in a length of
382 1 | distance from Cnosus to the cave and temple of Zeus is considerable;
383 3 | but they dwell in hollow caves on the tops of high mountains,
384 1 | Athenians have done the Ceans (and there are ten thousand
385 6 | no regular courts of law ceases to be a city; and again,
386 8 | opposite. And let poets celebrate the victors—not however
387 3 | termed paeans, and another, celebrating the birth of Dionysus, called,
388 12| public services, whether the celebration of sacrifice in peace, or
389 4 | that he may not imagine his celibacy to bring ease and profit
390 1 | and Carthaginians, and Celts, and Iberians, and Thracians,
391 6 | degree of desire, in order to cement and bind together diversities
392 1 | a victory is gained, or censured in the opposite case.~Athenian.
393 7 | tricks which Antaeus and Cercyon devised in their systems
394 8 | the whole month, and other cereals, on the first market day;
395 8 | as possible, instead of cestuses we should put on boxing
396 10| one, please to accept our challenge.”~Cleinias. But is there
397 6 | he in the scrutiny may be challenged on the one part by those
398 12| shall be an oblong vaulted chamber underground, constructed
399 10| There is no more proper champion of them.~Athenian. Well,
400 8 | to do no harm beyond the channel. And if there be in any
401 6 | streams in subterraneous channels, and make all things plenteous;
402 2 | as we have often said, to chant, and to enchant?~Cleinias.
403 10| be fairly singled out and characterized as of all impious men the
404 11| in case they should be charged with false witness. And
405 7 | many similar examples in charioteering and other things, from which
406 10| up the victory to other chariots?~Cleinias. That would be
407 10| in jest and earnest, like charms, who have also heard them
408 8 | to live chastely with the chaste object of his affection.
409 8 | wisdom, and wishes to live chastely with the chaste object of
410 6 | hot and fiery, but when chastened by a soberer God, receives
411 7 | chastise them when he ought, or chastises them in a way which he ought
412 4 | the persuasion of custom, chastising them by might and right,
413 7 | phrase is, all our goods and chattels into one dwelling, we entrust
414 7 | of life, which will be no cheap or mean employment, and
415 7 | discourse, and to be of good cheer, and not to faint.~Cleinias.
416 3 | gifts. Hence his armies cheerfully acquired for him countries
417 2 | naturally expressive of cheerfulness. Shall we begin, then, with
418 1 | see them; let us move on cheerily.~Athenian. I am willing—
419 11| prosperous, their descendants cherish them, and so live happily;
420 12| who have passed the age of childbearing; next, although they are
421 7 | tutors on account of his childishness and foolishness; then, again,
422 2 | to do so, like the other choirs who contend for prizes,
423 2 | a wealth passing that of Cinyras or Midas, and be unjust,
424 10| proportion to larger and lesser circles. “Very true.” And when you
425 7 | apparel of the singers be, not circlets and ornaments of gold, but
426 10| in one place, just as the circumference goes round of globes which
427 10| by any of our senses, is circumfused around them all, but is
428 8 | purify the stream or the cistern which contains the water,
429 12| educated, and dwelling in the citadel of the land, might become
430 3 | this they added the term “citharoedic.” All these and others were
431 8 | enacting that he be deprived of civic honours and privileges,
432 11| noble, which has been the civilizer of humanity? How then can
433 11| magistrates according to law, the claimant shall summon the possessor,
434 2 | he to be unnerved by the clamour of the many and his own
435 9 | opinions and decide causes clandestinely; or what is worse, when
436 8 | as you were saying is one clause which absorbs mankind, and
437 8 | his own land as far as the clay, and if at this depth he
438 1 | other folly, the law has clean driven out; and neither
439 6 | they should have a care of cleanliness, and not allow a private
440 11| order that the land may be cleared of this sort of animal.~
441 7 | present there is a want of clearness in what I am saying.~Cleinias.
442 5 | be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the
443 5 | wish for that in which the clements of either are small and
444 7 | empty hands; she must be clothed in a complete suit of armour,
445 12| first of them, and that Clotho or the spinster is the second
446 7 | habit of keeping quails and cocks, which they train to fight
447 8 | their will, and have to be coerced; and the ruler fears the
448 4 | not mingle persuasion with coercion, but employ force pure and
449 4 | continuance. Now mankind are coeval with all time, and are ever
450 8 | of the country shall take cognizance, and be the judges of them
451 6 | see to it, and he who is cognizant of the offence, and does
452 3 | to me; and I regard the coincidence as a sort of omen. The greater
453 5 | and movements, as well as coins and measures, dry and liquid,
454 12| others in company with his colleagues; and let him place a writing
455 11| but first of all he shall collect together his own kinsmen
456 8 | the water of a spring, or collected in reservoirs, either by
457 11| man who likes may go about collecting contributions as a friend
458 11| difference arises about the collection, he is to act on the understanding
459 8 | retailers and innkeepers and tax collectors and mines and moneylending
460 11| the charge has arisen by collusion between the injured party
461 4 | way an advantage to the colonist or legislator, in another
462 5 | mind since you are going to colonize a new country.~Cleinias.
463 6 | who are no other than the colonizing state. Well I know that
464 2 | takes his own individual colt and drags him away from
465 9 | not being younger than the combatants, nor their equal in age,
466 8 | deserves to be victor in combats of this sort, and what he
467 3 | to have liberty and the combination of friendship with wisdom,
468 3 | unnatural separations and combinations of them, are dispersed and
469 6 | be like the legislator “combing wool into the fire,” as
470 4 | of manners. But there is comfort in the eighty stadia; although
471 8 | in respect of leisure or comin and of the necessaries of
472 7 | lazy; this is not to be commended any more than that which
473 12| taking wing in pursuit of commerce, and flying over the sea
474 6 | the defence of the city be commited to the generals, and taxiarchs,
475 9 | Athenian. When any one commits any injustice, small or
476 8 | ought to be very careful of committing any offence against his
477 6 | a likelihood of internal commotions, which are always liable
478 9 | guilty recollection of is communicated by him with overwhelming
479 7 | reason to be ashamed of our compatriots; and might we not say to
480 6 | at last necessity plainly compels him to be an outlaw from
481 7 | long speeches, and make compendiums of them, saying that these
482 11| have been, as much as will compensate the loss. And besides the
483 5 | badness and goodness shall be compensated by more and less. And the
484 2 | other art, he who is to be a competent judge must possess three
485 10| understand the nature of their complaint, and you fancy that they
486 4 | about their own individual complaints? The slave doctor prescribes
487 7 | or, again, when they make complex variations of rhythms, which
488 7 | for note in unison; but complexity, and variation of notes,
489 5 | or gift, or any sort of compliance, without making her in any
490 9 | injustice, and the various complications of the voluntary and involuntary
491 3 | Cleinias. Pray go on, Stranger;—compliments are troublesome, but we
492 7 | one sound and the poet or composer of the melody gives another—
493 7 | framing certain models for composers. One of these models shall
494 9 | stones or beginners of some composite work, may gather a heap
495 7 | properly, and I now feel compunction for what I have said. Tell
496 12| adapted for receiving and concealing the bodies of the dead with
497 10| gifts, is what we must not concede to any one, and what every
498 6 | which will only make them conceited. The language used to a
499 3 | conflicts, and including all conceivable ways of hurting one another
500 7 | right or not in our whole conception, I cannot be very certain.~
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