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501 7 | another—also when they make concords and harmonies in which lesser
502 3 | conditions of polities and cities concur.~Cleinias. What is that?~
503 5 | can never be such a happy concurrence of circumstances as we have
504 9 | the vote of the majority condemn to death. But let there
505 6 | some approving and some condemning it; there is less dispute
506 5 | excess of self–love, and condescend to follow a better man than
507 2 | young children of any well–conditioned parents? Is the poet to
508 6 | the institution greatly conduced to security; and in some
509 9 | judgment, and the manner of conducting suits against those who
510 3 | the ruin of this glorious confederacy? Here is a subject well
511 9 | when a benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the benefit
512 8 | considerable benefit which he confers on the state, and he thinks
513 12| cases in which a denial confirmed by an oath clearly results
514 5 | attend and take care that the confluent waters should be perfectly
515 4 | On the other hand, the conflux of several populations might
516 2 | also their colours and conformations, or whether this is all
517 7 | opposite principles are confusing, and create a difficulty
518 5 | state some feature which is congenial to him and which he approves
519 12| now ascertained was then conjectured by some who had a more exact
520 12| whom he is entertained, in conjunction with the Prytanes, shall
521 12| in process of burial is connected with him; he should consider
522 6 | inferiors, and with them to form connections;—this will be for the benefit
523 6 | the unmixed. And he who is conscious of being too headstrong,
524 10| good fortune, have a way of consecrating the occasion, vowing sacrifices,
525 2 | are to use them. And the considerations which we have urged seem
526 9 | honourable, if the argument is consistently carried out?~Cleinias. True.~
527 9 | Athenian. There was a second consisting of pleasures and desires,
528 9 | magistrates, and bring the conspirator to trial for making a violent
529 1 | same cities may unjustly conspire, and having the superiority
530 9 | his case, the freeman who conspired with the slave shall reliable
531 9 | and the wounded man are conspiring together, let him argue
532 7 | working with energy and constancy, with a composed strength,
533 6 | Cleinias. Such has been the constant tradition, and is very likely
534 1 | Athenian. And will he who constitutes the state and orders the
535 7 | first of all, he shall constrain the teachers themselves
536 2 | is, that education is the constraining and directing of youth towards
537 12| vaulted chamber underground, constructed of tufa, which will last
538 3 | framework which you are constructing, for the city which is in
539 2 | one who is going to hold a consultation about any matter of importance;
540 4 | Cleinias is the person to be consulted, for his is the state which
541 8 | twelve parts, and in this way consume them. Let the twelfth portion
542 11| sells a slave who is in a consumption, or who has the disease
543 7 | receive these rules from us as containing the very truth; and may
544 12| exact way of considering or contemplating. anything, than the being
545 3 | for the city which is in contemplation.~Athenian. Good news, Cleinias;
546 3 | Cresphontes, and their contemporaries, as far as they were concerned
547 4 | fortune must be that he is the contemporary of a great legislator, and
548 9 | to be striven against and contended with, and by irrational
549 4 | so good. Still we may be content. The sea is pleasant enough
550 3 | nor, again, are there any contentions or envyings. And therefore
551 9 | involuntarily, and if any contentious or disputatious person says
552 8 | of any stranger who is conterminous with him, considering that
553 3 | correctly, on the whole continent of Europe. There were four
554 4 | animals, of whom some live continently and others incontinently,
555 3 | reason to be surprised at our continually proposing aims for the legislator
556 9 | called so, that he may be the continuer of their family, the keeper
557 4 | succession of bad seasons continuing during many years. Any one
558 5 | man should consider that a contract is a most holy thing, and
559 11| He shall owe to him who contracted with him the price of the
560 4 | dispositions, and thus to contradict himself; neither can he
561 9 | highest degree confused and contradictory. Bearing this in mind, let
562 11| good, for he is making a contribution to his own good and that
563 9 | murder with his own hand, but contrives the death of another, and
564 7 | being a freeman, he must be controlled by teachers, no matter what
565 10| more facility in moving and controlling and taking care of and unimportant
566 10| that it is the soul which controls heaven and earth, and the
567 6 | forms of slavery the most controverted and disputed about, some
568 6 | guardians of the law shall convene the assembly in some holy
569 8 | craftsmen, with a view to the convenience of the husbandmen. And the
570 12| bad, on the other hand, a conversion from ignorance and intemperance,
571 3 | with a power which might be converted into a tyranny. Now that
572 8 | ships, and servants, and converts the valiant sort into thieves
573 10| place whither you shall be conveyed. This is also the explanation
574 1 | sure.~Athenian. If such convivialities should turn out to have
575 10| and that all religion is a cooking up of words and a make–believe.~
576 11| tossed by the storm, or cool shade in the heat; and then
577 1 | is the sacred and golden cord of reason, called by us
578 10| the secondary motions of corporeal substances, and guide all
579 11| he, and those who see him corrected, may utterly hate injustice,
580 6 | that admits of a very easy correction; for if, turning to the
581 10| but may I make one or two corrections in what I have been saying?~
582 2 | have a natural truth and correctness without any fear of failure.
583 7 | what apart, and the whole correlation of them, must be rightly
584 9 | sufferings which are the correlatives of just actions.~Cleinias.
585 11| that class of men whose corruption will be the least injury
586 8 | the whole state amid the corruptions of human souls, opposing
587 11| and poverty; one of whom corrupts the soul of man with luxury,
588 7 | motion in the rites of the Corybantes; for when mothers want their
589 6 | give their vote openly. The councillors and other magistrates who
590 3 | Cyclopes:~They have neither councils nor judgments, but they
591 2 | deliberately lending any countenance to such proceedings; and
592 5 | some are true and some are counterfeit. To decide which are which
593 8 | pancration shall have a counterpart in a combat of the light
594 6 | there shall be a right of counterproposal as in the case of the generals,
595 7 | day there are said to be countless myriads of women in the
596 12| men, whom the whole state counts worthy of the rewards of
597 8 | proper time of life are coupled, male and female, and lovingly
598 6 | Let us remember what a courageously mad and daring creation
599 8 | decide together about all courses and about the armed competitors
600 9 | forbidding him. And if a cousin or nearer relative of the
601 12| the blessed person, and cover the sepulchre with a circular
602 12| surrounding them with extraneous coverings, and so hindering their
603 5 | can banish meanness and covetousness from the souls of men, so
604 6 | to taste the flesh of a cow and had no animal sacrifices,
605 5 | for himself isolation in crabbed age when life is on the
606 10| that nature is the first creative power; but if the soul turn
607 8 | honourable in the state, creators of noble actions—let their
608 2 | story, which has somehow crept about the world, that Dionysus
609 5 | preserve equality in special crises of the state, qualifications
610 8 | And the same is said of Crison and Astylus and Diopompus
611 1 | under his presidency? The critic, however, has never seen
612 7 | beginning is always the most critical part of education. Let us
613 12| office, be guilty of any crooked practice? It is by no means
614 7 | rush to the temples and crowd at the altars and shrines,
615 2 | giving pleasure is to be crowned victor, and deemed to be
616 11| senses in a manner, and feel crushed when we think that we are
617 12| white, and there shall be no crying or lamentation over them;
618 1 | there is, too, the so–called Crypteia, or secret service, in which
619 3 | and desirous to impose a curb upon it, instituted the
620 5 | is painful, like similar cures in medicine, involving righteous
621 7 | the armed dances if the Curetes, and the Lacedaemonians
622 5 | should have a coin passing current among themselves, but not
623 3 | those of Theseus when he cursed the unfortunate Hippolytus,
624 11| the next year, until the cycle of the five periods is complete;
625 1 | shall come to groves of cypresses, which are of rare height
626 5 | derived from Tyrrhenia or Cyprus or some other place, and
627 1 | citizen of Megara in Sicily:~Cyrnus, he who is faithful in a
628 3 | since the discoveries of Daedalus, Orpheus and Palamedes—since
629 3 | he says, Dardanus founded Dardania:~For not as yet had the
630 2 | Most true, Cleinias; and I daresay that I may have expressed
631 7 | silent. I speak somewhat darkly, but I shall endeavour also
632 7 | hands to throw a hundred darts. Now, the magistrates, male
633 12| may require that before daybreak they should be outside the
634 2 | of importance; nor in the daytime at all, unless in consequence
635 11| we say now, that he who deals in reproaches against others
636 1 | sport, and without paying dearly for experience. And I do
637 8 | should we not venture in the dearth of antagonists to spar by
638 7 | Olympic victories, which debars a man from every employment
639 12| until he have satisfied the debt of the winning party; but
640 5 | land, and having also many debtors, are willing, in a kindly
641 10| all things to growth and decay, to composition and decomposition,
642 5 | or restoring an old and decayed one, in respect of Gods
643 11| works, and they ought not to deceive in such matters, out of
644 10| about which I cannot be deceived:—You and your friends are
645 11| agora tells a falsehood, and deceives, and when he invokes the
646 10| our guard lest this most deceptive argument with its youthful
647 6 | lot;—they shall give their decisions at once, and shall be inaccessible
648 12| citizens. They shall be decked in a robe all of white,
649 8 | What word?~Athenian. The declaration that they are unholy, hated
650 6 | causes of those who have declined the inferior courts, and
651 2 | carry out our purpose with decorum? Will this be the way?~Cleinias.
652 8 | penalty. And if any one, by decoying the bees, gets possession
653 6 | proportion as the census of each decreases: all men shall praise him
654 1 | deformity, leanness, ugliness, decrepitude?~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
655 6 | the dividend (5040), we deduct two families, the defect
656 11| amount of receipts, after deducting expenses, will produce a
657 11| endeavour to associate with them deeper and softer natures. Those
658 11| before their time they are deeply regretted by them; but to
659 4 | way to fly from a herd of deer. Moreover, naval powers
660 5 | ought to get the better by defaming others, is less energetic
661 3 | credit to us, Cleinias, in defeating them; and the discredit
662 9 | party as to what he finds defective in the evidence, whether
663 1 | but about the merits and defects of the lawgivers themselves.
664 9 | other has begun, and he only defends himself, let him be free
665 8 | provide the safest and most defensible place of retreat for the
666 9 | necessity which cannot be deferred to the morrow. But we, as
667 11| the law. But if any one defies the law, and takes the property
668 11| excellent rule not lightly to defile the names of the Gods, after
669 4 | how much; unless you are definite, you must not suppose that
670 11| unsettled, and from this want of definiteness in their language they do
671 9 | men, even when they are deformed in body, are still perfectly
672 1 | accord bringing upon himself deformity, leanness, ugliness, decrepitude?~
673 1 | accord to plunge into utter degradation.~Athenian. Are you speaking
674 9 | gentler. But in general the degrees of guilt will be such as
675 12| heard, and the votings and delays, and all the things that
676 8 | of injuring the water by deleterious substances, let him not
677 2 | more, are all of us equally delighted with every sort of dance?~
678 10| accompanying them—sights and sounds delightful to children—and their parents
679 7 | Dioscuri. And our virgin lady, delighting in the amusement of the
680 5 | value of the excess, and the delinquent shall pay a sum equal to
681 4 | completion, of the great deliverance, and that these battles
682 1 | out of misfortune, and the deliverances from them which prosperity
683 11| if the property have been delivered to him by a stranger, within
684 6 | mountains into the hollow dells; and shall keep in the overflow
685 11| is yours—hard too, as the Delphic oracle says, to know yourselves
686 12| Wherefore let no one be deluded by poets or mythologers
687 3 | have been occasioned by deluges and pestilences, and in
688 2 | plausible account of the delusion.~Cleinias. What?~Athenian.
689 10| sometimes come tyrants and demagogues and generals and hierophants
690 5 | ought to order phratries and demes and villages, and also military
691 6 | olives, and the gifts of Demeter and her daughter, of which
692 4 | be of all cities the most democratical; and who can reasonably
693 3 | allow me, to make out and demonstrate as well as I am able to
694 10| injustice, now sufficiently demonstrated? May we say that they are?~
695 10| disposed as they desire, partly demonstrating to them at some length the
696 11| that he has this thing, but denies that the property in dispute
697 9 | the painful sort, which we denominate anger and fear.~Cleinias.
698 11| the keeping of taverns, is denounced and numbered among dishonourable
699 3 | any legislator or state departs from this rule by giving
700 5 | strangers are more directly dependent on the protection of God,
701 11| paying the fine, let him be deposed from his office of guardian
702 11| without the consent of the depositor, violating the simplest
703 1 | need of either is to be deprecated; but peace with one another,
704 2 | I must complain that you depreciate our lawgivers.~Athenian.
705 4 | leading me to say something depreciatory of legislators; but if the
706 9 | I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his
707 12| the law may by reflection derive what is necessary, for the
708 8 | eighteen; and they shall descend into the arena in suitable
709 3 | Ilium was built, when they descended from the mountain, in a
710 4 | there are Cretans of Argive descent; and the race of Cretans
711 1 | admit the truth of your description.~Megillus. Certainly.~Athenian.
712 3 | looked to the sea, could they descry any hope of salvation; for
713 12| be shall be indicted for desertion before the same persons
714 9 | penalty be according to his deserts—death, or bonds, or blows,
715 2 | allow of other pleasures, designing to gain the victory over
716 2 | most at variance with the designs of the legislator, and is,
717 12| Then let us not think of desisting until we have imparted this
718 5 | and reduces his rivals to despair by his unjust slanders of
719 3 | remained, slight indeed and desperate, but their only one. They
720 11| thought a mean person and a despiser of the laws, let him pay
721 6 | fourth. And if any one, despising the laws for the sake of
722 7 | will not his words inspire despondency and evil omens and forebodings
723 8 | warriors of our city, who are destined when occasion calli to enter
724 11| experience and practice destitute of any art, ought if possible
725 3 | devoid of reason is the destroyer of his house and the very
726 8 | unnatural, not intentionally destroying the seeds of human increase,
727 12| been said, either we must detain the Stranger, and by supplications
728 3 | either because they were detained by the Messenian war, which
729 12| you must join with me in detaining him.~Megillus. I will.~THE
730 6 | of government is not to deteriorate, but to improve in the state
731 9 | scrupulously tested, the determination of the penalties or punishments
732 8 | in like manner what rule determines who is defeated; and let
733 7 | child’s wishes instead of deterring him, not considering that
734 8 | appointment of nature, and deters men from all frenzy and
735 7 | he hears the opposite he detests it, and calls it illiberal;
736 1 | fight your battles against detractors when I heard you assailed,
737 7 | that the most serious and detrimental consequences arise out of
738 3 | advantage for themselves, they devastate cities, and send fire and
739 3 | poverty which attended the devastations; and did not the eldest
740 7 | their dress, but he who devises something new and out of
741 11| legislator ought always to be devising a remedy for evils of this
742 6 | throughout life should be devoted to the acquisition of the
743 6 | existed, animals took to devouring each other as they do still?~
744 3 | accomplishments, and feats of mental dexterity; and the opposite are to
745 1 | BOOK I~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: An ATHENIAN STRANGER; CLEINIAS,
746 9 | another time in the most diametrical opposition?~Cleinias. Such
747 4 | any form of constitution differing from that which they had
748 8 | poisonous substances, or by digging or by theft, let the injured
749 3 | sure.~Athenian. Thus, after digressing from the original subject
750 2 | or father, will be in a dilemma, and will in vain endeavour
751 11| or even more careful and dilligent. Let every one who has the
752 10| and attains to the second dimension, and from this arrives at
753 8 | limited a man may increase and diminish his possessions, let the
754 2 | reached forty years, after dinner at a public mess, he may
755 8 | of Crison and Astylus and Diopompus and many others; and yet,
756 7 | Lacedaemonians have those of the Dioscuri. And our virgin lady, delighting
757 6 | but only cakes and fruits dipped in honey, and similar pure
758 10| very true; the soul then directs all things in heaven, and
759 11| and if he appear to throw dirt upon his father’s house
760 2 | painfully and to his own disadvantage?~Cleinias. How can I possibly
761 3 | unrighteous and evil. This disagreement between the sense of pleasure
762 3 | brass and the like would disappear.~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
763 3 | best shows his approval or disapproval.~Megillus. Excellent, Cleinias;
764 6 | men whom they approve or disapprove, as they are worthy of either.
765 4 | not the whole of virtue, I disapproved of them. And now I hope
766 4 | changing laws. And the power of discase has often caused innovations
767 10| them may occasionally be discerned among mankind. But upon
768 11| body or mind, which is not discernible to the ordinary man, if
769 6 | be satisfied with barely discharging their duty to the colony,
770 10| receiving the divine mind she disciplines all things rightly to their
771 2 | have a feeling of shame and discomfort which will make him very
772 6 | lot, in order to avoid the discontent of the people; and so we
773 4 | state from degeneracy and discordance of manners. But there is
774 9 | case.~Athenian. In this discordant and inconsistent fashion
775 2 | ashamed, the older and more discreet he grows;—is not this true?~
776 1 | will seriously task the discrimination of the legislator. I am
777 7 | to recollect our previous discussions, and we shall be able to
778 6 | of esteem—that is to say, disesteem. Now, if the greater part
779 11| citizen, to act negligently or dishonestly, let them bring him before
780 11| are to be the laws, the disinherited must necessarily emigrate
781 6 | we should not attempt to disinter them; there is a poetical
782 10| mention that they take up a dismal length of time?~Cleinias.
783 8 | offer for sale parts of dismembered animals to the strangers,
784 7 | behaviour of the company, and so dismiss them; after which the presiding
785 5 | as he is able; and this dismissal of them is euphemistically
786 4 | is always attending, and dismisses everything else, whether
787 3 | That is a rule not to be disobeyed.~Athenian. Yes, and a rule
788 11| In another state, a son disowned by his father would not
789 5 | the second place, do not disparage the small and modest proportions
790 3 | the Athenians, and they dispatched embassies in all directions,
791 4 | or wait for them in the dispensaries—practitioners of this sort
792 1 | any number of others, and display his power in conquering
793 1 | better men whose virtue is displayed in the greatest of all battles.
794 7 | passion, rejecting the one and displaying the other in hymns and songs,
795 7 | the severer kind cold and displeasing. So that, as I was saying
796 10| and what every man should disprove to the utmost of his power.~
797 8 | although this latter is partly disproven by the fact of their existence
798 11| shall teach and learn of the disputant and the company, but he
799 11| female, and to them let the disputants have recourse, and by their
800 9 | and if any contentious or disputatious person says that men are
801 10| that mankind are always disputing about them and altering
802 4 | harm. And yet, why am I disquieted, for I believe that the
803 10| partly making them afraid or dissatisfied, and then proceed to the
804 6 | of means, and any one who dissents shall prevail, as the law
805 7 | the citizens various and dissimilar:—this is an evil in states;
806 6 | children when their bodies are dissipated by intoxication, but their
807 6 | created by time, insensibly dissolves friendships from a feeling
808 3 | overthrew the whole empire by dissonance and harsh discord.~Cleinias.
809 3 | actions that the ordinary distinctions of right and wrong which
810 7 | that their limbs are not distorted by leaning on them when
811 1 | who, finding the family distracted, not only did not destroy
812 5 | not faction, but rather distraction;—here should exist among
813 9 | states, but private only distracts them); and that both the
814 5 | offices and contributions and distributions may be proportioned to the
815 6 | minds—some of them utterly distrust their servants, and, as
816 6 | by the help of works and ditches, in order that the valleys,
817 6 | cement and bind together diversities of character; but excessive
818 6 | for if, turning to the dividend (5040), we deduct two families,
819 8 | if he be convicted of re–dividing the land by stealth or by
820 9 | For if a man were born so divinely gifted that he could naturally
821 11| with those who are called diviners, and who in any way or manner
822 5 | abusing his soul, which is the divinest part of man; for no one,
823 5 | divided by exactly fifty–nine divisors, and ten of these proceed
824 6 | office of overseer and be divorced for their mutual benefit.
825 2 | prospects are apt to make us dizzy, especially in childhood,
826 9 | now made to slaves who are doctored by slaves? For of this you
827 10| Athenian. The wisest of all doctrines, in the opinion of many.~
828 12| transaction in a written document, and in the presence of
829 5 | the oracle of Delphi, or Dodona, or the God Ammon, or any
830 11| of burden, or horse, or dog, or any other animal, injure
831 12| little more at leisure at the doings of other men; and these
832 5 | mighty power, both as regards domestic economy and politics, and
833 4 | them is named after the dominant power; they are not polities
834 3 | which they derived from Dorieus; for it was he who gathered
835 3 | when the father, in the dotage of age or the heat of youth,
836 7 | in the right, but it is downright folly to make the same distinction
837 5 | straight direction, upwards or downwards, as in those which go round
838 4 | in full cry, biddest to drag the well–benched ships into
839 6 | into dark places, and when dragged out into the light they
840 7 | side, and does not limp and draggle in confusion when his opponent
841 7 | antagonists in the noblest of dramas, which true law can alone
842 1 | and that the more a man drank of this the more he regarded
843 7 | or awake, must have had a dreamy suspicion of their nature.
844 7 | their bodies or in their dress, but he who devises something
845 12| young men marching first, dressed in the garb of warriors—
846 8 | into the arena in suitable dresses. Let these be the regulations
847 8 | wine, or for laying by as dried figs. As to pears, and apples,
848 11| luxury, while the other drives him by pain into utter shamelessness.
849 12| children of the Nile, nor driving them away by savage proclamations.~
850 10| poet compares to stingless drones?~Cleinias. And the comparison
851 7 | avoiding blows and missiles by dropping or giving way, or springing
852 8 | be in any place a natural dryness of the earth, which keeps
853 4 | has that sort of vision dullest, and when he is old keenest.~
854 2 | younger men to welcome with dutiful delight good dispositions.
855 3 | perhaps monarchy, out of the dynasties or lordships, and in this
856 1 | upwards, which makes a man eagerly pursue the ideal perfection
857 1 | Cretans are of opinion that he earned this reputation from his
858 10| this power existing in any earthy, watery, or fiery substance,
859 6 | that they are to go to the east). And at the commencement
860 5 | both as regards domestic economy and politics, and in the
861 2 | voice which reaches and educates the soul, we have ventured
862 9 | the sick man, but you are educating him; and he does not want
863 7 | imagine a better mode of effecting this object than that of
864 10| observing anxiously the effects of the seasons on the growth
865 8 | can attain their greatest efficiency without arms.~Cleinias.
866 2 | advantage, and then use all his efforts to make the whole community
867 2 | same, as you describe the Egyptian to be, or having the same
868 6 | every day in the temple of Eileithyia during a third part of the
869 5 | and has a proper degree of elasticity;—in a similar manner those
870 4 | lifted up with pride, or elated by wealth or rank, or beauty,
871 2 | has a more than natural elevation; his heart is glad within
872 1 | am afraid of appearing to elicit a very long discourse out
873 6 | passing, which naturally elicited a question about my meaning
874 2 | which was intended to bring eloquent aid to the Chorus of Dionysus,
875 3 | means, if it will tend to elucidate our subject.~Athenian. Hear,
876 12| one, as a herald, or on an embassy; or on a sacred mission.
877 4 | duties, with a view to the embellishment and orderly regulation of
878 3 | and noble, and loves and embraces that which he knows to be
879 10| There should be a common law embracing all these cases. For we
880 7 | walk about and fashion the embryo within as we fashion wax
881 12| what it will do about the emigration of its own people to other
882 4 | state which he desires to be eminently prosperous; He has done
883 7 | of peace which he called Emmeleia, or the dance of order;
884 7 | name, when he called them Emmeleiai, or dances of order, thus
885 7 | and of the children is an emotion of fear, which springs out
886 3 | a measure; the argument emphatically declares that no city can
887 9 | sure, that if one of those empirical physicians, who practise
888 4 | observing their masters; empirically and not according to the
889 2 | the least common of their employments. And this, Stranger, shall
890 11| poisoning or witchcraft:—He who employs poison to do any injury,
891 12| whom the city and the law empower to exact the sum due; and
892 11| daughter of the dead man, and empowered to marry by the guardians,
893 8 | and they should go out en masse, including their wives
894 11| help of an advocate the law enables a man to win a particular
895 7 | movements of armies, and encampings, and all that relates to
896 6 | beasts, both within the enclosure and in the suburbs. Three
897 3 | the mountains, and made enclosures of loose walls and works
898 8 | competitors, passing censures and encomiums on one another according
899 1 | prove to us that we ought to encourage the taste for drinking instead
900 6 | allow a private person to encroach upon any public property
901 8 | good to another. He who encroaches on his neighbour’s land,
902 8 | neighbour, and especially of encroaching on his neighbour’s land;
903 7 | most serious and blessed endeavours, for man, as I said before,
904 1 | the round of civil life is ended, and the time has come for
905 | ending
906 4 | better who accomplishes his ends in a double way, or he who
907 10| nor is such a notion to be endured, and he who holds this opinion
908 2 | the child is incapable of enduring serious training, they are
909 6 | agreed—that a man’s whole energies throughout life should be
910 8 | of love we may be able to enforce one of two things—either
911 8 | if such a could only be enforced. I can imagine some lusty
912 2 | regulation and with a view to the enforcement of temperance, and in like
913 3 | ten years before the naval engagement at Salamis, Datis came,
914 11| be the second law:—He who engages in retail trade must be
915 7 | the sons of Gods; and also engaging in contests and preludes
916 1 | and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils;
917 7 | other time the character is engrained by habit. Nay, more, if
918 9 | shall have his evil deed engraven on his face and hands, and
919 8 | the one exhorting him to enjoy the beauty of youth, and
920 8 | find pleasure, if seldom enjoyed, to be a less imperious
921 1 | have had the opportunity of enjoying them, they being often the
922 3 | governments led us thus far to enlarge. We remarked that the Persians
923 9 | promoting a man to power enslaves the laws, and subjects the
924 11| liable for the harm which ensues according to law. And if
925 6 | fellow–citizens during the ensuing year in the best and holiest
926 2 | attentively, or we may be entangled in error.~Cleinias. Proceed.~
927 4 | recruits in the present enterprise?~Cleinias. They will come
928 5 | oppose him in some of his enterprises. Still he may ever hope,
929 2 | festival at which there are entertainments of all sorts, including
930 12| praised at any rate for his enthusiasm; and if he be much better,
931 10| thinking.~Athenian. Yes, my enthusiastic Cleinias; but are not these
932 5 | justice to which he is fairly entitled: wherefore, in every state,
933 12| carried to the grave and entombed in a manner different from
934 6 | shall be inaccessible to entreaties. The final judgment shall
935 11| gladness of his heart earnestly entreats the Gods in his prayers
936 8 | depart, let him erase all the entries which have been made by
937 1 | I think, is the sort of enumeration which ought to be made of
938 7 | gymnastic and wrestling and to enunciate better ones.~Athenian. Now
939 5 | fool. Neither condition is enviable, for the untrustworthy and
940 5 | fame of no man; but the envious, who thinks that he ought
941 3 | there any contentions or envyings. And therefore they were
942 7 | the tricks of boxing which Epeius or Amycus invented, are
943 6 | of men into believing the equability of their children’s disposition
944 6 | which are united; for the equable and symmetrical tends infinitely
945 5 | lots the same principle of equalization of the soil ought to be
946 11| to satisfy our needs and equalize our possessions. Let us
947 8 | he shall run in the full equipments of an archer a distance
948 6 | degree from factions. For equity and indulgence are infractions
949 8 | fine to the injured party, equivalent to double the value of the
950 8 | And if he depart, let him erase all the entries which have
951 6 | depart life let them be erased. The limit of marriageable
952 8 | diminution, let there be an erasure made. And let the same rule
953 5 | this lasting basis may be erected afterwards whatever political
954 8 | districts. And the first erection of houses shall be around
955 3 | report to Athens that no Eretrian had escaped him; for the
956 3 | against the Athenians and Eretrians, having orders to carry
957 1 | legislator commanded to eschew all great pleasures and
958 12| courageous of men in the estimation of posterity. Dear companions,
959 7 | the laws, should receive eulogies; this will be very fitting.~
960 3 | through the Medes and the Eunuch, as they called him, who
961 3 | Median fashion by women and eunuchs, which led to their becoming
962 5 | this dismissal of them is euphemistically termed a colony. And every
963 3 | on the whole continent of Europe. There were four classes,
964 3 | of Messene, Procles and Eurysthenes of Lacedaemon.~Megillus.
965 1 | proclaimed by heralds, but everlasting. And if you look closely,
966 10| there are Gods by reasonable evidences, and also that they are
967 1 | must admit this.~Cleinias. Evidently.~Athenian. They are good;
968 11| but he shall abstain from evilspeaking; for out of the imprecations
969 11| entertainment of evil thoughts, and exacerbating that part of his soul which
970 6 | triple the amount which was exacted at first, and he who is
971 11| punish him, if convicted, by exacting a fine of double the amount
972 9 | and equal.~Touching the exaction of penalties, when a man
973 4 | which in the forced and exaggerated language of some philosophers
974 2 | is literally true and no exaggeration—their ancient paintings
975 5 | truer or better or more exalted in virtue. Whether such
976 1 | best of my ability I have examined them, but I am going to
977 6 | property either by buildings or excavations. Further, they ought to
978 5 | the life in which pain is exceeded by pleasure we have determined
979 2 | of the dance and song, is exceedingly coarse and tasteless. The
980 4 | Nestor, who is said to have excelled all men in the power of
981 2 | State. For wine has many excellences, and one pre–eminent one,
982 1 | gymnastic exercises have been excellently devised for the promotion
983 6 | amount of his property, excepting four minae which are allowed
984 10| The greatest of them are excesses and insolences of youth,
985 3 | if it be exclusively and excessively attached to monarchy, nor
986 11| solstice. When goods are exchanged by selling and buying, a
987 2 | to be taken against the excitableness of youth;—afterwards they
988 5 | unusual one, will probably excite wonder when mentioned for
989 6 | drinking, thirdly, the excitement of love.~Cleinias. We shall
990 11| than half of his kindred, exclusive of the father and mother
991 12| as in man lies? do indeed excuse the mass of the citizens,
992 6 | The matter is serious, and excuses will not serve the turn.
993 10| towards the common good, executing the part for the sake of
994 9 | contrivance, let the public executioner take him in the direction
995 7 | that caution must be always exercised, both by the speaker and
996 6 | into the light they will exert their utmost powers of resistance,
997 2 | could gain the prize by exhibiting a puppet–show. Suppose these
998 2 | There would be various exhibitions: one man, like Homer, will
999 10| these absolutely inanimate existences. The elements are severally
1000 1 | there is one answer which exonerates the practice in question
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