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1001 3 | illimitable desert and a vast expanse of land; a herd or two of
1002 1 | specific name of fear, when the expectation is of pain; and of hope,
1003 12| the customary Gods that he expects to find it there; he shall
1004 6 | endless labour which painters expend upon their pictures—they
1005 12| then, be as follows:—The expenditure on the entire funeral of
1006 11| receipts, after deducting expenses, will produce a moderate
1007 9 | be purified and undergo expiation according to law; and then
1008 9 | your mind, go and perform expiations, go as a suppliant to the
1009 6 | before his term of office expires, let those whose business
1010 12| in return for the many explanations of things which I have given
1011 7 | mention be not sufficiently explicit, let us speak, further of
1012 9 | three ways meet, and there expose his body naked, and each
1013 1 | liked to have heard you expound the matter?~Cleinias. By
1014 1 | impropriety. When a stranger expresses wonder at the singularity
1015 1 | war, if I am to judge from expressions of yours in which you say
1016 3 | command of Darius, which was expressly directed against the Athenians
1017 8 | and money penalties, and expulsion from the state, until they
1018 7 | giving the proper flexion and extension to each of them, a harmonious
1019 12| one might adduce by way of extenuation, and with the view of justifying
1020 11| unjust, abominable, and extortionate ransom—these are the sort
1021 3 | there any possibility of extracting ore from them; and they
1022 12| by surrounding them with extraneous coverings, and so hindering
1023 4 | qualification. But if I had an extremely rich wife, and she bade
1024 11| forsaken and fell into the extremes of poverty in any tolerably
1025 12| soles. For these are the extremities, and of all the parts of
1026 8 | toil divert the aliment and exuberance of them into other parts
1027 10| heard or been yourself an eyewitness of many monstrous impieties,
1028 4 | May I still make use of fable to some extent, in the hope
1029 2 | the very colours of their faces differ?~Athenian. Good,
1030 10| than the great, but more facility in moving and controlling
1031 12| glory to him to manage with fairness and moderation what relates
1032 10| their prosperity shakes your faith—you have known or heard
1033 2 | strangers, but among his familiars, and, as we have often said,
1034 7 | and on this wise let my fanciful tale about letters and teachers
1035 10| whole—how will the whole fare at his hands if he takes
1036 6 | in them; bidding a long farewell to other institutions which
1037 5 | the portion which is next farthest; and so of the rest. Moreover,
1038 2 | were young, and that this fashioner of them is the same who
1039 10| of wine and the savour of fat,” and at last overturn both
1040 11| them attach evils which are fated to corrupt and spoil them.
1041 7 | other valiant beast whose fatness is worn down by brave deeds
1042 7 | the due reward of the idle fatted beast is that he should
1043 7 | shall each one of them live fattening like a beast? Such a life
1044 4 | all the conditions to be favourable which are needed for the
1045 7 | not unfavourably but most favourably.~Athenian. I should expect
1046 9 | fortune which has in a manner favoured him, and to the providence
1047 3 | from their childhood as the favourites of fortune, who were blessed
1048 5 | themselves deem them, and his own favours to them less than theirs
1049 10| to brute animals, which fawn upon their keepers, whether
1050 1 | misfortune, and that he feared everything happening or
1051 1 | the habit of courage and fearlessness is to be trained amid fears,
1052 6 | other impossible and useless feat.~Cleinias. What is the cause,
1053 3 | of accomplishments, and feats of mental dexterity; and
1054 5 | to give to his state some feature which is congenial to him
1055 5 | either are small and few and feeble, and the pains exceed. And
1056 3 | for the principle which feels pleasure and pain in the
1057 3 | had scarcely any means of felling timber. Even if you suppose
1058 2 | drags him away from his fellows against his will, raging
1059 6 | and every sort of good fellowship with one another. For people
1060 3 | and justice, prays with fervour, under the influence of
1061 2 | all, to the mystery and festivity of the elder men, making
1062 3 | your government was still feverish and excited, tempered your
1063 9 | go and rob a temple, the fewest possible words of admonition
1064 3 | Of course.~Athenian. The fewness of the survivors at that
1065 8 | sojourn commence after their fifteenth year; and let them remain
1066 3 | Cleinias. Of course.~Athenian. Fifthly, if I am not mistaken, comes
1067 8 | the bunch, or figs on the fig–tree. Let a metic purchase
1068 4 | bitter and brackish quality; filling the streets with merchants
1069 12| end will be attained and finally accomplished, when we have
1070 6 | poetical saying, which is finely expressed, that “walls ought
1071 12| web of life is in reality finished, giving death, which is
1072 4 | building?~Cleinias. There is no fir of any consequence, nor
1073 9 | power, he will never remain firm in his principles or persist
1074 5 | having a certain character of firmness, whereas the woof is softer
1075 3 | expedition against Troy. For, firstly, the people of that day
1076 7 | thus far, there will be a fitness in our completing the matter,
1077 12| religious ceremonies which may fittingly be performed, whether appertaining
1078 6 | seventeen composed of the fives and twelves, shall determine
1079 11| the value which the court fixes as the price of the slave;
1080 6 | principles; and do you now, fixing your eyes upon the standard
1081 11| the paternal lot and the fixtures on the lot. And if there
1082 12| small sacrifice and a few flattering words they will be their
1083 6 | him who will correct the flaws which time may introduce,
1084 9 | offence, nor if he have fled the country; but let the
1085 4 | to them; for of light and fleeting words the penalty is most
1086 7 | body, giving the proper flexion and extension to each of
1087 6 | is beloved by them, and flies to his relatives for protection,
1088 1 | as there always will be, flights and pursuits of which no
1089 3 | and a mother, whom, like a flock of birds, they followed,
1090 12| suddenly overwhelmed by floods of water; and there are
1091 8 | wheat set apart for meal and flour, or any other kind of food,
1092 12| whole state and country flourishes and is happy; but if the
1093 1 | and blame war in this high–flown strain, whom are you praising
1094 5 | in too; and recollection flows in while wisdom is departing.
1095 3 | like a flock of birds, they followed, forming one troop under
1096 8 | for himself and a single follower without payment, as a tribute
1097 7 | of his childishness and foolishness; then, again, being a freeman,
1098 9 | kill him, or if he slay a footpad in self–defence, he shall
1099 7 | despondency and evil omens and forebodings in the mind of his father
1100 11| twenty years, but like other foreigners shall go away, taking his
1101 12| Happy is he and may he be forever happy, who is persuaded
1102 12| the sum due; and if they forfeit their security, let the
1103 9 | person before dying freely forgives the murderer, let him undergo
1104 11| reconcile them they shall be formally reconciled; but if their
1105 10| certain seat and room. But the formation of qualities he left to
1106 11| or freeman, were utterly forsaken and fell into the extremes
1107 12| sustenance which the earth, their foster–parent, is naturally inclined
1108 5 | these respects he is most foully and disgracefully abusing
1109 5 | into twelve portions, first founding temples to Hestia, to Zeus
1110 3 | dwelling at the foot of many–fountained Ida. For indeed, in these
1111 1 | I can get as far as the fouth head, which is the frequent
1112 7 | allowed to hunt anywhere. The fowler in the mountains and waste
1113 11| credit to the man who buys fram him, he must do this on
1114 3 | may have the use of the framework which you are constructing,
1115 8 | exportation of goods; and as to frankincense and similar perfumes, used
1116 10| punishment of sacrilege, whether fraudulent or violent, and now we have
1117 8 | touch any person of the freeborn or noble class except his
1118 7 | nor should any freeman or freewoman be discovered taking pains
1119 5 | greatness and number and frequency. Hence one of the two lives
1120 7 | mankind get the habit of frequently transgressing the law in
1121 6 | the time when marriage is fruitful. But if any continue without
1122 6 | You shall hear without any fruitless loss of time. That which
1123 12| old in the city or leave a fry of young ones like themselves
1124 8 | any stranger who likes buy fuel from day to day wholesale,
1125 12| magistrates, and their duty is fulfilled justly and without blame,
1126 8 | prizes given to him who best fulfils the ordinances of the law.~
1127 3 | that you would give us a fuller explanation.~Athenian. I
1128 7 | by far the greatest and fullest? Many will even contend
1129 3 | Cyrus, his sons, in the fulness of luxury and licence, took
1130 2 | revenge he inspires Bacchic furies and dancing madnesses in
1131 11| class of craftsmen who have furnished human life with the arts
1132 2 | pleasure, which makes or furnishes no utility or truth or likeness,
1133 3 | of Hellas would have been fused in a chaos of Hellenes mingling
1134 12| are sitting (unless the gainer of the suit has been previously
1135 3 | neither party were the gainers.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian.
1136 2 | that the profitable and gainful is one thing, and the just
1137 7 | way moving, and that thus gaining the mastery over food and
1138 8 | chastisement. Touching articles of gale, they should first see whether
1139 1 | having invented the story of Ganymede and Zeus because they wanted
1140 12| marching first, dressed in the garb of warriors—the cavalry
1141 8 | element of nutrition in gardens, but is easily polluted.
1142 7 | to distribute apples and garlands, using the same number sometimes
1143 6 | are protected by walls and gates, then they may sleep in
1144 9 | of Heaven affirm, like, gatherers of stones or beginners of
1145 8 | case.~With respect to the gathering in of the fruits of the
1146 1 | would you not, that in all gatherings of man, kind, of whatever
1147 4 | cure our disorders with the gentlest remedies. What I mean to
1148 11| him give and receive them genuine and unadulterated, in accordance
1149 7 | person had the nature of Geryon or Briareus he ought to
1150 7 | good sir? In the process of gestation?~Athenian. Exactly. I am
1151 10| the habit of answering, giddiness and confusion of mind, and
1152 7 | who trusts to his nets and gins, shall not be allowed to
1153 12| all have their cords, and girders, and sinews—one nature diffused
1154 12| short tunic and without a girdle, having first taken an oath
1155 8 | the enactments of many law givers, which we may use, not deeming
1156 10| are like the motion of a globe, we invented a fair image,
1157 6 | beasts, chastise them with goads and whips, and make their
1158 1 | mischief, were to censure a goat or any other animal who
1159 1 | goats feeding without a goatherd in cultivated spots, and
1160 7 | those who have a care of godlike manhood taking them with
1161 7 | supplications to all the Gods in goodly array, armed and on horseback,
1162 4 | was intended to create goodwill in the person whom he addressed,
1163 4 | at the present day is the Gortynian, and this has come from
1164 4 | and this has come from Gortys in the Peloponnesus.~Athenian.
1165 4 | Surely,” they say, “the governing power makes whatever laws
1166 2 | good soldier, but also a governor of a state and of cities.
1167 3 | these, no longer do the governors govern on behalf of their
1168 4 | is it?~Athenian. That God governs all things, and that chance
1169 7 | a fair, better and more graceful way of passing their time
1170 7 | bears himself naturally and gracefully, and after the manner of
1171 3 | aid of the Muses and the Graces, they attain truth.~Cleinias.
1172 7 | natural difference. The grand, and that which tends to
1173 2 | Cleinias. You talk rather grandly.~Athenian. Pleasure and
1174 1 | which every man ought to grasp and never let go, but to
1175 8 | in every sort of way the gratification of his lusts.~Cleinias.
1176 11| spring up. For the speaker gratifies his anger, which is an ungracious
1177 11| parents, and do not regard and gratify in every respect their wishes
1178 11| begin again and execute them gratis in the given time. When
1179 11| Gods have a good will and gratitude to us on this account. Now,
1180 8 | whether in comedy or in the graver language of tragedy? When
1181 1 | people known to us, whether Greek or barbarian, whom the legislator
1182 1 | and beauty, and there are green meadows, in which we may
1183 4 | any desire to recall past grievances); but he, as we know, was
1184 10| is it?~Athenian. A very grievous sort of ignorance which
1185 2 | foaming, and gives him a groom to attend to him alone,
1186 7 | knowledge. For so necessity grounded in nature constrains us,
1187 7 | tactics, and the mode of grounding and taking up arms; if for
1188 6 | tribes be distributed into groups of four, and let each group
1189 1 | onward we shall come to groves of cypresses, which are
1190 4 | notion of them if we can guarantee one thing.~Cleinias. What
1191 6 | aspect, and being easily guarded will be infinitely better
1192 11| of the expiration of the guardianship be allowed to bring them
1193 12| a divine instinct which guesses rightly, and very many who
1194 12| not to make mistakes by guessing many things, but to look
1195 12| confident that he is a fitting guest of such a host, or let him
1196 11| duties of hospitality to his guests, treats them as enemies
1197 1 | child in his play should be guided to the love of that sort
1198 10| abyss, that is to say, into Hades and other places in the
1199 12| their natural growth of hair and soles. For these are
1200 8 | twelfth portion, and in each hamlet they shall first set apart
1201 8 | them. There shall be twelve hamlets, one in the middle of each
1202 7 | dangerous are the writings handed down to us by many writers
1203 8 | a citizen be occupied in handicraft arts; for he who is to secure
1204 3 | different from the ignorance of handicraftsmen.~Cleinias. Yes, my friend,
1205 6 | beget and bring up children, handing on the torch of life from
1206 7 | should be awakened by her handmaidens instead of herself first
1207 2 | valiant and strong, and handsome and rich, and does throughout
1208 8 | would ryot deter us from hanging up a lifeless image and
1209 8 | the soul of every citizen hangs suspended, and can attend
1210 7 | our own, and permit you to harangue our women and children,
1211 4 | which a maritime people are harassed by enemies, as the Athenians
1212 1 | away from those who were hardened in them, and would become
1213 7 | we fashion wax before it hardens, and after birth swathe
1214 10| heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness, blackness
1215 11| there may sometimes be a hardship in the lawgiver commanding
1216 8 | unconsecrated and bastard seed among harlots, or in barren and unnatural
1217 6 | rhapsodists, players on the harp, the flute and the like,
1218 11| And if disease or age or harshness of temper, or all these
1219 7 | men mean and abject, and haters of their kind, and therefore
1220 10| the Gods? Who can avoid hating and abhorring the men who
1221 9 | about in his own accustomed haunts, he is stricken with terror
1222 2 | on and make still further havoc by separating the rhythm
1223 12| that time some ventured to hazard the conjecture that mind
1224 3 | son, who was young and hot–headed, had come to the throne
1225 6 | world without a head;—a headless monster is such a hideous
1226 7 | habit—he should not rush headlong into pleasures, for he will
1227 6 | is conscious of being too headstrong, and carried away more than
1228 5 | courageous another, and the healthful another; and to these four
1229 2 | and utility is just the healthfulness of the things served up
1230 5 | not have any one fond of heaping up riches for the sake of
1231 9 | actions, and to him who hearkens to them the law has nothing
1232 9 | body, he would burst into a hearty laugh—he would say what
1233 2 | drinkers become like iron heated in the fire, and grow softer
1234 5 | diverse winds and violent heats, some by reason of waters;
1235 2 | and I would inflict the heaviest penalties on any one in
1236 8 | whom we will style the more heavily armed, to run over smoother
1237 10| such as heat and cold, heaviness and lightness, hardness
1238 12| remaining in the hands of Hector, then the base spirits of
1239 10| qualities will be luxurious and heedless and idle, like those whom
1240 10| to length; who is “at our heels”?—as the saying goes, and
1241 1 | Does the drinking of wine heighten and increase pleasures and
1242 1 | and opinion and prudence, heightened and increased? Do not these
1243 9 | will be guilty of crimes as heinous as any which are ever perpetrated
1244 11| absolutely to them; and let the heiress in the first degree be a
1245 1 | laws about allotments and heiresses, another about assaults;
1246 12| themselves to be the sons and heirs of the land.~As to the initiation
1247 4 | general invitation to any Hellene who likes to come. And yet
1248 3 | hearing of the bridge over the Hellespont, and the canal of Athos,
1249 6 | Megillus, for the state of the Helots among the Lacedaemonians
1250 8 | lusts, and having no man his helper but himself standing alone
1251 12| can be done in the way of helping a man after he is dead.
1252 3 | sea and on land, caused a helpless terror, which made us more
1253 11| father is cast, he shall henceforth be incapable of ordering
1254 11| the arts is dedicated to Hephaestus and Athene; and there is
1255 3 | admiration of the aforesaid Heracleid expedition, which was so
1256 6 | slavery which exists among the Heracleots, who have subjugated the
1257 3 | royal brothers, sons of Heracles—a fair device, as it seemed,
1258 5 | as we were saying, the Heraclid colony had, and which is
1259 1 | not indeed proclaimed by heralds, but everlasting. And if
1260 2 | you have your young men herding and feeding together like
1261 5 | consideration:—The shepherd or herdsman, or breeder of horses or
1262 | hereby
1263 6 | priests. Those who hold hereditary offices as priests or priestesses,
1264 12| duties imposed upon him by Hermes and Zeus, and let there
1265 12| the dead included in four heroic lines. Nor shall the laying
1266 2 | and Odyssey, or one of the Hesiodic poems, and would award the
1267 11| and his son doubts and hesitates about indicting his father
1268 7 | great many poets writing in hexameter, trimeter, and all sorts
1269 11| pray the Gods to find the hidden treasure, which another
1270 6 | headless monster is such a hideous thing.~Cleinias. Excellent,
1271 10| demagogues and generals and hierophants of private mysteries and
1272 4 | I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that
1273 3 | security to not very high hills, either.~Cleinias. There
1274 12| extraneous coverings, and so hindering their natural growth of
1275 11| considered the innumerable hindrances which may arise among men
1276 3 | general, were kept quiet by a hint from a stick. Such was the
1277 11| appointed for this purpose. The hireling and the tavern–keeper, and
1278 3 | was not expressed in a hiss, nor in the most unmusical
1279 3 | Lacedaemonians as part of the history of Sparta.~Megillus. To
1280 12| twelve parts, and prove the holders of them by every sort of
1281 9 | be washed out until the homicidal soul which the deed has
1282 4 | colonies which are of this homogeneous sort are apt to kick against
1283 11| to the seller or to some honest and trustworthy person,
1284 6 | cakes and fruits dipped in honey, and similar pure offerings,
1285 7 | order, and rejecting the honeyed Muse—not however that we
1286 7 | when you are asleep, by hook or with weels, which latter
1287 9 | in a theatre, clapping or hooting in turn this or that orator—
1288 4 | was saying, salvation is hopeless. And now, Cleinias, we have
1289 3 | now there appears on the horizon a fourth state or nation
1290 4 | our friend here as being hortatory only, was, although in fact,
1291 12| provided them at the temples by hospitable persons, and the priests
1292 2 | us follow the scent like hounds, and go in pursuit of beauty
1293 10| with pilots or generals, or householders or statesmen, or any other
1294 11| single family to the 5040 households; and, therefore, he who
1295 12| to she–dogs uttering vain howlings, and talking other nonsense
1296 11| has been the civilizer of humanity? How then can the advocate
1297 6 | ought to be of a simple and humble kind. When the twelve have
1298 4 | in her company with all humility and order; but he who is
1299 11| the employment of innocent humour. A comic poet, or maker
1300 8 | pass through life always hungering?~Cleinias. Then that is
1301 8 | a lover of the body, and hungers after beauty, like ripe
1302 2 | hand is productive of any hurtful quality, but exists solely
1303 3 | all conceivable ways of hurting one another in word and
1304 6 | likely to be insolent, and husbands to be mean and subservient
1305 12| the bier on either side, hymning the praises of the departed
1306 10| legislation is required; one the hypocritical sort, whose crime is deserving
1307 11| comic poet, or maker of iambic or satirical lyric verse,
1308 1 | Carthaginians, and Celts, and Iberians, and Thracians, who are
1309 8 | And have we not heard of Iccus of Tarentum, who, with a
1310 1 | a man eagerly pursue the ideal perfection of citizenship,
1311 2 | Athenian. The view which identifies the pleasant and the pleasant
1312 10| imagine carelessness and idleness and luxury to be virtues?
1313 2 | BOOK II~Athenian Stranger. And now
1314 3 | BOOK III~Athenian Stranger. Enough
1315 2 | rhapsodist recite well the Iliad and Odyssey, or one of the
1316 9 | for making a violent and illegal attempt to change the government.
1317 11| in any way shares in the illiberality of retail trades may be
1318 3 | things there was a fearful illimitable desert and a vast expanse
1319 2 | they will tell stories, illustrating the same virtues, as with
1320 12| Athenian. We do not want many illustrations about such matters:—What
1321 1 | would lead them amid these imaginary terrors, and prove them,
1322 10| according to their various imaginations about the Gods; and this
1323 6 | Certainly.~Athenian. He who imagines that he can give laws for
1324 11| fathers on the charge of imbecility when they are disabled by
1325 6 | until those who have been imbued with them from childhood,
1326 4 | been deserted from time immemorial.~Athenian. And has the place
1327 6 | been; or that it began an immense while ago.~Cleinias. Certainly.~
1328 5 | hirelings, whether slaves or immigrants, by all those persons who
1329 8 | and this will happen if no immodesty be allowed in the practice
1330 10| power which mortals and immortals can have?~Cleinias. They
1331 8 | this is truly “to move the immovable,” and every one should be
1332 11| well said—”Move not the immovables,” and this may be regarded
1333 5 | will allow the lot to be impaired in any case. This the legislator
1334 11| guardians of the law, who are impartial, and ten of the women who
1335 11| all mankind; and we will impartially take care of all your concerns,
1336 7 | the manner of teaching and imparting them, and the persons to
1337 5 | man for himself; he who imparts them shall be honoured as
1338 10| across; but if the river is impassable by you, then there will
1339 10| And therefore, without impatience, and without hurry, let
1340 3 | concert, had warded off the impending yoke, all the tribes of
1341 8 | seldom enjoyed, to be a less imperious mistress. They should not
1342 1 | absolutely fearless and imperturbable, should we not by all means
1343 5 | the intemperate life is impetuous in all things, and has violent
1344 9 | fast, Cleinias, and you impinged upon me, and brought me
1345 11| fear, or lust, or envy, or implacable anger, shall endure a heavier
1346 7 | must somehow find a way of implanting this reverence for antiquity,
1347 5 | soul? For such a preference implies that the body is more honourable
1348 4 | productive, or in need of importations?~Cleinias. Hardly in need
1349 8 | any art which have to be imported, and which are not necessary—
1350 4 | provided with harbours, and an importing rather than a producing
1351 6 | receive laws at their first imposition. But if we could anyhow
1352 7 | a half, but has the same imposts to pay and the same toils
1353 1 | come from the left, but impotent against the insidious flatteries
1354 5 | legislator ought often to impress upon himself the question—”
1355 2 | become softer and so more impressible. In the first place, will
1356 6 | must make arrangements and improvements year by year, until such
1357 2 | is confident, bold, and impudent, and unwilling to wait his
1358 5 | and draw off and divert impurities, so in every political arrangement
1359 12| pressure of office or his own inability to support the dignity of
1360 7 | happen when the melody is inappropriate to them. And therefore the
1361 3 | and excited, tempered your inborn strength and pride of birth
1362 3 | that it must be vast and incalculable?~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
1363 2 | of the many and his own incapacity; nor again, knowing the
1364 10| itself and others, and is co–incident with every action and every
1365 9 | speaking of motives which incite men to the fulfilment of
1366 9 | deterred, and any one should be incited by some fatality to deprive
1367 1 | find revelries and the many incitements of every kind of pleasure
1368 1 | to direct the children’s inclinations and pleasures, by the help
1369 7 | called manly; but that which inclines to moderation and temperance,
1370 11| reduces the inequalities and incommensurabilities of goods to equality and
1371 11| wife have an unfortunate incompatibility of temper, ten of the guardians
1372 9 | Cleinias. What are the inconsistencies which you observe in us?~
1373 9 | would say that there was any inconsistency in this.~Cleinias. They
1374 5 | at the same time adding, inconsistently, that the true legislator
1375 4 | live continently and others incontinently, but when isolated, was
1376 2 | hatred of evil; or he who is incorrect in gesture and voice, but
1377 11| occupations were managed on incorrupt principles, they would be
1378 9 | loss which the state has incurred. And the penalty shall be,
1379 8 | in his zeal for his art, ind also because he was of a
1380 3 | and of which the coward is independent and fearless. If this fear
1381 6 | make up their minds to live independently by themselves, servants
1382 10| come into existence, were indestructible (for if either of them had
1383 3 | form which in fact Homer indicates as following the second.
1384 4 | whichever he prefers, he himself indicating by his example the lines
1385 11| doubts and hesitates about indicting his father for insanity,
1386 5 | which are just and unjust indifferently, are more than double those
1387 10| the other half in their indignation at such persons. Our address
1388 1 | overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?~Cleinias. I suppose
1389 12| you say, that he who is indolent about such matters or incapable
1390 1 | midst of them, and compel or induce him by the prospect of reward
1391 5 | a similar error men are induced to fancy that their own
1392 8 | whether rightly or wrongly indulged.~Megillus. I, for my part,
1393 2 | and add to this any other indulgences, I shall never agree or
1394 11| benefactor who reduces the inequalities and incommensurabilities
1395 9 | compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come
1396 6 | the cavalry vote and the infantry look on at the election;
1397 9 | citizen will ever take the infection, but their servants, and
1398 7 | such a power we ought to infer from these facts, that every
1399 1 | principle of superiority or inferiority to self?~Athenian. Yes.~
1400 8 | they shall not confuse the infernal deities and their rites
1401 10| out their perfection with infinitesimal exactness. And one of these
1402 3 | without any very great infliction of pain.~Megillus. Certainly.~
1403 9 | no penalty which the law inflicts is designed for evil, but
1404 6 | extinguish their increase and influx.~But to return:—After marriage
1405 11| obedience to the oracle; the informer, if he be a freeman, shall
1406 6 | equity and indulgence are infractions of the perfect and strict
1407 5 | shall keep watch that any infringement of these commands may be
1408 7 | above–mentioned advantages, infuses a sort of courage into the
1409 10| does no discredit to our ingenuity.~Cleinias. It does us great
1410 11| then be the law, having an ingredient of praise, not compelling
1411 10| justice of the Gods who inhabit Olympus.~ O youth or young
1412 3 | cities would begin to be inhabited.~Cleinias. Doubtless.~Athenian.
1413 10| And as the soul orders and inhabits all things that move, however
1414 7 | for a whole harmony to be inharmonical, or for a rhythm to be unrhythmical,
1415 10| moved by chance and some inherent force according to certain
1416 5 | indeed, fancy that they will inherit reverence from us, if we
1417 5 | departed when he comes into the inheritance; but of his other children,
1418 5 | modest proportions of the inheritances which you received in the
1419 12| assume, as the argument iniplies, that this council possesses
1420 12| heirs of the land.~As to the initiation of private suits, let the
1421 4 | is, whether maritime or inland.~Cleinias. I should imagine,
1422 5 | the souls of most men is innate, and which a man is always
1423 8 | merchants and retailers and innkeepers and tax collectors and mines
1424 8 | their lives in holiness and innocence, abiding firmly in their
1425 2 | or artist is allowed to innovate upon them, or to leave the
1426 3 | Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate delights—mingling lamentations
1427 11| indicting his father for insanity, let the law in that case
1428 12| place a thing at last on an insecure foundation.~Megillus. I
1429 6 | which is created by time, insensibly dissolves friendships from
1430 4 | as I said before, is the inseparable companion of all the other
1431 2 | to consider whether the insight into human nature is the
1432 7 | far from being small or insignificant, but is the greatest of
1433 3 | directors of public instruction insisted that the spectators should
1434 10| of them are excesses and insolences of youth, and are offences
1435 10| of those who speak or act insolently toward the Gods. But first
1436 12| less than a drachma, the insolvent person shall not have any
1437 7 | blasphemes, will not his words inspire despondency and evil omens
1438 2 | and that out of revenge he inspires Bacchic furies and dancing
1439 12| give an account—which is an inspiring hope to the good, but very
1440 11| he who has done the wrong instigated by the folly of another,
1441 2 | authority of any law, but at the instigation of lawless pleasures; and
1442 12| Even bad men have a divine instinct which guesses rightly, and
1443 2 | suitable habits to the first instincts of virtue in children;—when
1444 4 | from the sick man, and also instructing him as far as he is able,
1445 7 | desire the one to give their instructions freely, and the others to
1446 7 | insidious, sharp–witted, and insubordinate of animals. Wherefore he
1447 6 | civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the
1448 7 | we ought neither to add insult to punishment so as to anger
1449 9 | when after having been insulted in deed or word, men pursue
1450 10| formerly mentioned), when insults are offered to parents;
1451 4 | good–will, he might more intelligently receive his command, that
1452 2 | any difficulty in speaking intelligibly to you about a subject with
1453 12| conversion from ignorance and intemperance, and in general from all
1454 5 | possibly choose to live intemperately. And if this is true, the
1455 5 | number and magnitude and intensity and equality, and in the
1456 9 | previous cases, and the same interdict on the murderer; and having
1457 12| next, although they are interdicted from other burials, let
1458 9 | reason of cowardice does not interfere on behalf of his country,
1459 4 | shipwrights always require for the interior of ships.~Athenian. These
1460 9 | mark the place of their interment. And if a beast of burden
1461 7 | and praises of the Gods, intermingled with prayers; and after
1462 7 | brass, silver, and the like, intermixed with one another, sometimes
1463 12| them, and to be able to interpret them in words, and carry
1464 7 | write his laws, but also to interweave with them all such things
1465 1 | external war, or that kind of intestine war called civil, which
1466 5 | and he, I suspect, would intimate that they are as follows:—
1467 1 | beauty, strength, and all the intoxicating workings of pleasure madden
1468 11| he is about to die is an intractable creature, and is apt to
1469 8 | of tragedy? When the poet introduces on the stage a Thyestes
1470 11| Gods, will be a suitable introduction:—There are ancient customs
1471 3 | that Hellas repelled the invader; for the truth is, that
1472 1 | in dread of the Persian invasion; and he said that for ten
1473 3 | speak of numberless other inventions which are but of yesterday.~
1474 1 | the way in which modern inventors of laws make the classes,
1475 10| Sensation and power are in an inverse ratio to each other in respect
1476 1 | the classes, for they only investigate and offer laws whenever
1477 12| proceed rightly has now to be investigated and explained.~Athenian.
1478 10| opinion of all those physical investigators; and I would have you examine
1479 3 | their power would have been invincible in war.~Megillus. No doubt.~
1480 4 | going to send out a general invitation to any Hellene who likes
1481 10| hear the prostrations and invocations which are made by Hellenes
1482 11| and deceives, and when he invokes the Gods, according to the
1483 5 | corrupted, and that they will involve in destruction the pure
1484 3 | not Spartan, but rather Ionian, and he seems quite to confirm
1485 7 | of youth discontented and irascible and vehemently excited by
1486 9 | and contended with, and by irrational force overturns many things.~
1487 7 | pleasures and fancies. Now the irregular strain of music is always
1488 10| the world moves wildly and irregularly, then the evil soul guides
1489 1 | power in conquering the irresistible change effected by the draught—
1490 10| Athenian. They will make some irreverent speech of this sort:—”O
1491 1 | should be no feeling of irritation.~Cleinias. Certainly not.~
1492 2 | composition of the Goddess Isis. And therefore, as I was
1493 2 | the fact that Crete is an island. And, if I were a lawgiver,
1494 4 | incontinently, but when isolated, was as we said, hardly
1495 5 | up in store for himself isolation in crabbed age when life
1496 12| and to Nemea and to the Isthmus,—citizens should be sent
1497 6 | and lawless life of the Italian banditti, as they are called.
1498 2 | which still prevails in Italy and Sicily, did certainly
1499 4 | BOOK IV~Athenian Stranger. And now,
1500 12| provocative of envy, and ivory, the product of a dead body,
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