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1501 9 | BOOK IX~Next to all the matters
1502 1 | matters are to be regarded jestingly or seriously, I think that
1503 2 | life, and we follow them, joining hands together in dances
1504 6 | their arrival, should have a joint care that the magistrates
1505 4 | and that again, if I am jot mistaken, is remark which
1506 10| class deal in prophecy and jugglery of all kinds, and out of
1507 7 | the water with poisonous juices. And now we may say that
1508 3 | brass and all metals were jumbled together and had disappeared
1509 2 | that they called out and jumped about in a disorderly manner;
1510 2 | once got on his legs he jumps about without rhyme or reason;
1511 9 | the front, obscuring the juster and better; and so working
1512 1 | Zeus because they wanted to justify themselves in the enjoyment
1513 12| extenuation, and with the view of justifying a misfortune which is easily
1514 7 | lays down the lines of the keel, and thus, as it were, draws
1515 7 | life, and lay down their keels according to the nature
1516 4 | dullest, and when he is old keenest.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
1517 4 | homogeneous sort are apt to kick against any laws or any
1518 6 | fire of sexual lust, which kindles in men every species of
1519 3 | True.~Athenian. But can a kingship be destroyed, or was any
1520 12| whether he conquer.~If any one knowingly receives anything which
1521 7 | not by the victory of a laborious spirit. Thus, only the best
1522 12| inspired man, and has not laboured at these things.~Cleinias.
1523 6 | beasts of burden and the labourers whom they find on the spot:
1524 6 | for the benefit of those labouring under disease—there the
1525 12| Athenian. The saying that Lachesis or the giver of the lots
1526 3 | moderation; but your states, the Laconian and Cretan, have more of
1527 7 | necessary, and so fill up the lacunae of our laws?~Athenian. They
1528 7 | Dioscuri. And our virgin lady, delighting in the amusement
1529 8 | existed before the days of Laius, and denounce these lusts
1530 5 | torrents, into a single lake, we ought to attend and
1531 1 | legislated for a courage which is lame of one leg, able only to
1532 12| supplications or womanish laments. But they shall ever be
1533 8 | largest rock which is not a landmark, than the least stone which
1534 11| may fortune favour us:—No landowner among the Magnetes, whose
1535 8 | him who will inform the landowners, and let them bring him
1536 7 | but they sing to them and lap them in sweet strains; and
1537 8 | more willing to move the largest rock which is not a landmark,
1538 3 | states would be firmly and lastingly established?~Megillus. Of
1539 7 | And the reflection which lately arose in our minds, that
1540 | later
1541 10| centre like globes made in a lathe, and is most entirely akin
1542 12| adorned with a crown of laurel; they shall all be priests
1543 9 | precautionary ceremonies of lavation, and any others which the
1544 6 | many things have grown lax among you, which might have
1545 7 | limbs are not distorted by leaning on them when they are too
1546 1 | upon himself deformity, leanness, ugliness, decrepitude?~
1547 12| be a vain thing; for the learners themselves do not know what
1548 7 | Egypt is taught when he learns the alphabet. In that country
1549 11| which he has moved to the leaver. And if some one accuses
1550 1 | courage which is lame of one leg, able only to meet attacks
1551 2 | when he has once got on his legs he jumps about without rhyme
1552 5 | as a friend, nor shall he lend money upon interest; and
1553 7 | usages come pouring in and lengthening out our laws.~Cleinias.
1554 10| that the Gods are always lenient to the doers of unjust acts,
1555 5 | them in the future God will lessen, and that present evils
1556 7 | rocking at sea. This is the lesson which we may gather from
1557 11| young, and whatever he may license, the writer shall be allowed
1558 11| one of my ancestors, nor lift, if I should find, such
1559 9 | from the possibility of lifting up his hand against a citizen,
1560 10| that we have unconsciously lighted on a strange doctrine.~Cleinias.
1561 2 | which he has given men to lighten the sourness of old age;
1562 11| of another, through the lightheartedness of youth or the like, shall
1563 10| and cold, heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness,
1564 6 | or again, when there is a likelihood of internal commotions,
1565 6 | nature prone to that which is likest to himself, and in this
1566 2 | to keep quiet either in limb or voice, and that they
1567 7 | left side, and does not limp and draggle in confusion
1568 4 | fighting men, to be an evil;—lions might be trained in that
1569 5 | coins and measures, dry and liquid, and weights, so as to be
1570 8 | sell, and the other buy, liquids sufficient to last during
1571 1 | the contrary is not to be listened to. But an old man who remarks
1572 4 | the speaker, and you the listeners, will try to estimate all
1573 12| happy, who is persuaded and listens to our words; but he who
1574 2 | who likes may enter the lists, and that he is to bear
1575 2 | thousand years ago;—this is literally true and no exaggeration—
1576 11| judges, and unseasonably litigate or advocate, let any one
1577 11| existing among us should litten to the request of the legislator
1578 11| begs, seeking to pick up a livelihood by unavailing prayers, let
1579 8 | tournaments, imitating in as lively a manner as they can real
1580 11| interest is not to be taken on loans, yet for every drachma which
1581 1 | country is more adapted to locomotion on foot; but then, if you
1582 1 | Syracusans have done the Locrians, who appear to be the best–
1583 3 | like to have for a fellow—lodger or neighbour a very courageous
1584 1 | are shady places under the lofty trees, which will protect
1585 11| Gods above, who regard the loneliness of the orphans; and in the
1586 3 | and made enclosures of loose walls and works of defence,
1587 10| other. The one may talk loosely about the Gods and about
1588 1 | string of his tongue is loosened, and fancying himself wise,
1589 9 | any man, but rather the lord of all. I speak of mind,
1590 3 | mistaken, is generally termed a lordship, and this still remains
1591 3 | out of the dynasties or lordships, and in this altered state
1592 9 | prelude is over, cry with a loud voice,—He who is taken in
1593 8 | coupled, male and female, and lovingly pair together, and live
1594 1 | according to Theognis, is loyalty in the hour of danger, and
1595 4 | choice, and the things of lucky omen, are given to the Gods
1596 2 | children, which is to sing lustily the heaven–taught lay to
1597 2 | another a performance on the lute; one will have a tragedy,
1598 5 | and in this way only, he ma acquit himself and free
1599 8 | Thyestes or an Oedipus, or a Macareus having secret intercourse
1600 1 | intoxicating workings of pleasure madden us? What is better adapted
1601 9 | the mastery of the soul maddened by desire; and this is most
1602 6 | like a cup, in which the maddening wine is hot and fiery, but
1603 10| Stranger, would be such a madman.~Athenian. And now, Megillus
1604 11| slight quarrel this class of madmen will often raise a storm
1605 2 | Bacchic furies and dancing madnesses in others; for which reason
1606 11| injured by the powers of the magician. Now it is not easy to know
1607 6 | who are duly appointed to magisterial power, and their families,
1608 8 | temperance and courage and magnanimity and wisdom, and wishes to
1609 5 | severally in number and magnitude and intensity and equality,
1610 7 | hands we are, as it were, maimed by the folly of nurses and
1611 6 | keep in view. There was one main point about which we were
1612 1 | in Lacedaemon and Crete mainly with a view to war.~Cleinias.
1613 5 | of the soil ought to be maintained; the badness and goodness
1614 3 | greatest security for the maintenance of their constitutions?~
1615 11| humour. A comic poet, or maker of iambic or satirical lyric
1616 7 | poets and we are poets, both makers of the same strains, rivals
1617 3 | Persians, and their present maladministration of their government, which
1618 9 | contrivance, voluntary and purely malicious, which most often happen
1619 8 | decision shall suffer for his malignant and morose temper, and pay
1620 6 | therefore he is not very manageable, nor likely to become so,
1621 6 | of age. The director and manager of the choruses shall be
1622 9 | who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an
1623 9 | regarded as rude and ill–mannered and slavish;—this will be
1624 10| singular argument of those who manufacture the soul according to their
1625 1 | his own nature, and is not manufactured. Therefore be assured that
1626 7 | horseback, in dances, and marches, fast or slow, offering
1627 12| sepulchre, the young men marching first, dressed in the garb
1628 6 | who have subjugated the Mariandynians, and about the Thessalian
1629 6 | be erased. The limit of marriageable ages for a woman shall be
1630 6 | each individual. He who marries is further to consider that
1631 5 | has been brought back. In marrying and giving in marriage,
1632 7 | harbours or sacred streams or marshes or pools, provided only
1633 3 | Orpheus and Palamedes—since Marsyas and Olympus invented music,
1634 4 | the power of our Ephors is marvellously tyrannical; and sometimes
1635 8 | and they should go out en masse, including their wives and
1636 8 | other inferior people have mastered?~Cleinias. I dare say.~Athenian.
1637 2 | that no animal at birth is mature or perfect in intelligence;
1638 3 | Messene violated these our maxims, and ruined themselves and
1639 | maybe
1640 1 | beauty, and there are green meadows, in which we may repose
1641 10| they know, and yet like the meanest sort of men, knowing the
1642 2 | excellence of music is to be measured by pleasure. But the pleasure
1643 7 | Arithmetic is one of them; the measurement of length, surface, and
1644 7 | wide awake; and again in measurements of things which have length,
1645 7 | accustomed to eat any sort of meat, or drink any drink, or
1646 3 | his kingdom through the Medes and the Eunuch, as they
1647 3 | they were educated in the Median fashion by women and eunuchs,
1648 1 | witness, Theognis, citizen of Megara in Sicily:~Cyrnus, he who
1649 2 | not any one who is thus mellowed be more ready and less ashamed
1650 1 | respectable citizens to melt like wax?~Megillus. I should
1651 2 | nature of the soul, like iron melted in the fire, may become
1652 10| have at the same time good memories and quick wits, are worse;
1653 12| have reproached the son of Menoetius with having cast away his
1654 3 | depends on the employment of mercenaries and strangers whom they
1655 1 | Tyrtaeus speaks, many a mercenary soldier will take his stand
1656 11| relates to retail trade, and merchandise, and the keeping of taverns,
1657 9 | be the mildest and most merciful of all laws.~Cleinias. You
1658 11| captives who are at his mercy, and will not release them
1659 9 | and a court selected by merit from the last year’s magistrates.
1660 1 | in general, but about the merits and defects of the lawgivers
1661 2 | delight in their sports and merry–making, because we love
1662 2 | after dinner at a public mess, he may invite not only
1663 12| to keep guard and deliver messages when he is bidden; and in
1664 4 | most severe; Nemesis, the messenger of justice, is appointed
1665 3 | they were detained by the Messenian war, which was then going
1666 6 | frequent revolts of the Messenians, and the great mischiefs
1667 3 | of them until the art of metallurgy had again revived.~Cleinias.
1668 3 | for iron and brass and all metals were jumbled together and
1669 2 | correct enough; but to speak metaphorically of a melody or figure having
1670 7 | set to the lyre, whether metrical or without rhythmical divisions,
1671 2 | passing that of Cinyras or Midas, and be unjust, he is wretched
1672 10| making ourselves darkness at midday—I mean as if we were under
1673 5 | third and lowest of them: midway comes the interest of the
1674 4 | days of old, there was a migration of the inhabitants, and
1675 7 | for a walk of a great many miles for the sake of health,
1676 1 | shown in the case of the Milesian, and Boeotian, and Thurian
1677 3 | primitive age, having plenty of milk and flesh; moreover they
1678 8 | innkeepers and tax collectors and mines and moneylending and compound
1679 4 | as they can; they do not mingle persuasion with coercion,
1680 5 | successor in the duty of ministering to the Gods, the state and
1681 1 | and the just may be in a minority.~Cleinias. Very possibly.~
1682 7 | choruses of foreign and hired minstrels, like those hirelings who
1683 6 | where there are numerous and minute details, the legislator
1684 5 | we fear the appearance of minuteness, if the law commands that
1685 12| a man; but the converse miracle cannot now be wrought, or
1686 10| in their actions, as in a mirror, you seemed to see the universal
1687 2 | and hence there occurred a misapprehension on your part. For when evils
1688 6 | but if he be a citizen who misbehaves in this way, they shall
1689 6 | Messenians, and the great mischiefs which happen in states having
1690 4 | imitate its enemies in what is mischievous.~Cleinias. How does that
1691 2 | many, from a fear of their misconceiving and misunderstanding what
1692 4 | extravagant sort; and a poor miserly man, who had not much money
1693 2 | is wretched and lives in misery? As the poet says, and with
1694 3 | their subjects; but their misfortunes were due to their general
1695 1 | which he only sees very much mismanaged, he shows in the first place
1696 1 | that he is not aware of the mismanagement, and also not aware that
1697 12| misfortune which is easily misrepresented. We must, therefore, endeavour
1698 12| Hellenic sacrifices and sacred missions, and other public and holy
1699 12| these same persons again mistaking the nature of the soul,
1700 2 | their misconceiving and misunderstanding what is said.~Cleinias.
1701 7 | prevails is almost universally misunderstood.~Cleinias. In what respect?~
1702 10| persuasion into his words, and mitigate the severity of them as
1703 2 | character; nor would they mix up the voices and sounds
1704 1 | citizens win a victory over the mob and over the inferior classes
1705 2 | military way of life, which is modelled after the camp, and is not
1706 3 | right elements and duly moderated, was preserved, and was
1707 12| the present, and to spend moderately on the lifeless altar of
1708 1 | not in the way in which modern inventors of laws make the
1709 6 | greater part of mankind behave modestly, the enactments of law may
1710 10| with cold, or of dry with moist, or of soft with hard, and
1711 10| prey to the dogs, and they, mollified by the gift, suffered them
1712 9 | blows and the like on a momentary impulse, and are sorry for
1713 1 | True.~Athenian. Are not the moments in which we are apt to be
1714 4 | the most ancient of all monarchies; and, therefore, when asked
1715 8 | collectors and mines and moneylending and compound interest and
1716 4 | the upper hand so entirely monopolize the government, as to refuse
1717 6 | without a head;—a headless monster is such a hideous thing.~
1718 12| cultivation, and there shall be no monuments in such spots, either large
1719 11| state of savageness and moroseness, and pays a bitter penalty
1720 9 | cannot be deferred to the morrow. But we, as I may by grace
1721 10| they have all power which mortals and immortals can have?~
1722 9 | Athenian. We are speaking of motives which incite men to the
1723 4 | old boys as we are, by moulding in words the laws which
1724 10| and primeval creations, moulds and fashions all those lesser
1725 5 | fate, when he seems to be mounting high and steep places, the
1726 12| not allow the voice of the mourner to be heard outside the
1727 12| streets, or the processions of mourners in the streets, and may
1728 11| therefore, in respect of the multifarious occupations of retail trade,
1729 8 | one another, through their multiplication, may cause a weight of enmity,
1730 3 | time advanced and the race multiplied, the world came to be what
1731 10| prayers, while they are really multiplying their crimes infinitely,
1732 8 | general, who are born in great multitudes, and yet remain until the
1733 9 | that he who has done any murderous act should of necessity
1734 7 | the action is direct and muscular, giving for the most part
1735 4 | judgment of the speaker or the musician, or, in the present instance,
1736 7 | their counsel poets and musicians, and making use of their
1737 9 | determining that wounds and mutilations arising out of wounds should
1738 1 | gave them laws which they mutually observed, and was able to
1739 4 | comes into my mind in some mysterious way. All this time, from
1740 2 | Dionysus above all, to the mystery and festivity of the elder
1741 5 | sacrifices in connection with mystic rites, either originating
1742 9 | utterly abominable. For the myth, or saying, or whatever
1743 12| one be deluded by poets or mythologers into a mistaken belief of
1744 10| their story they proceed to narrate the birth of the Gods, and
1745 9 | once more the tale which we narrated a little while ago, in the
1746 5 | other way of escape, whether narrow or broad, can be devised
1747 1 | speaking of education in this narrower sense, but of that other
1748 2 | other things in Egypt are nat so well. But what I am telling
1749 12| front of it shall sing their national hymn, and maidens shall
1750 6 | as generals men who are natives of the city, and a selection
1751 11| women naked down to the navel. And if there be a lack
1752 11| out of three conditions—nearness of kin and the preservation
1753 12| in like manner. And boys neat the bier and in front of
1754 10| thou, bold man, that thou needest not to know this?—he who
1755 11| of all your concerns, not neglecting any of them, if we can possibly
1756 11| any other citizen, to act negligently or dishonestly, let them
1757 12| to Zeus at Olympia and to Nemea and to the Isthmus,—citizens
1758 4 | penalty is most severe; Nemesis, the messenger of justice,
1759 11| case may occur in which the nephew, having a rich father, will
1760 6 | houses in the lot is the nest and nursery of his young,
1761 4 | reproduce the character of Nestor, who is said to have excelled
1762 3 | Datis had joined hands and netted the whole of Eretria. And
1763 5 | nor choose pain; and the neutral state we are ready to take
1764 12| among the children of the Nile, nor driving them away by
1765 6 | of thirty–seven in all, nineteen of them being taken from
1766 3 | Assyrians and the Empire of Ninus, which still existed and
1767 | nobody
1768 8 | them to himself by making noises, he shall pay the damage;
1769 12| name akin to mind (nous, nomos). And of all other words,
1770 10| and no suspicion of their non–existence; when men, knowing
1771 12| howlings, and talking other nonsense of the same sort. But now,
1772 4 | time, from early dawn until noon, have we been talking about
1773 9 | same time cause great and notable disgrace to the wounded
1774 8 | have been speaking they are notably the causes. But our state
1775 7 | can neither abstain from noting these things, nor can he
1776 6 | use of the illustration notwithstanding:—Suppose that some one had
1777 8 | of necessity produces and nourishes the various articles of
1778 12| possessing a name akin to mind (nous, nomos). And of all other
1779 8 | distribute by measure and numb among the animals who have
1780 4 | when the ruling element is numerically small, and at the same time
1781 11| we honour a mother or a nurse. But now that a man goes
1782 7 | care were taken that our nursling should have as little of
1783 7 | which are named after the Nymphs, and Pan, and Silenuses,
1784 4 | and the captain, and the oarsman, and all sorts of rather
1785 7 | the young man must listen obediently; neither pleasure nor pain
1786 5 | the person reputed to have obeyed them best through life.
1787 7 | would not have very much objected to our proposed application
1788 12| place of burial shall be an oblong vaulted chamber underground,
1789 11| a monthly interest of an obol. Suits about these matters
1790 2 | may have expressed myself obscurely, and so led you to imagine
1791 9 | bring these to the front, obscuring the juster and better; and
1792 11| world are—but this is not observable, except to those who live
1793 8 | the citizens live in the observance of them.~Now of artisans,
1794 2 | be regulated by law and observant of it, and the sober would
1795 12| he have himself made any observations, let him communicate his
1796 1 | or with a bad one:—when observers of this class praise or
1797 12| well–being of those two is obviously the preservation of every
1798 10| some vestige of them may occasionally be discerned among mankind.
1799 3 | mankind which have been occasioned by deluges and pestilences,
1800 12| or small, but they shall occupy that part of the country
1801 7 | to consecrate the several odes to gods and heroes: and
1802 11| brought retail trade into ill–odour, and wherein, lies the dishonour
1803 4 | practice from Homer, by whom Odysseus is introduced, rebuking
1804 2 | recite well the Iliad and Odyssey, or one of the Hesiodic
1805 9 | according to law, and the offending person they shall leave
1806 8 | in any other way, and he offends publicly in the face of
1807 6 | other trials of capital offenses may fitly take place. As
1808 11| with meats, or drinks, or ointments, nothing has as yet been
1809 6 | previously no existence, and also olives, and the gifts of Demeter
1810 3 | the universal conceit of omniscience and general lawlessness;—
1811 6 | pleases can read about his onces. The guardian of the law
1812 1 | our argument must travel onwards to the God Dionysus.~Cleinias.
1813 7 | of legislation which has opened out of our present discourse,
1814 12| and so make his search, opening the sealed property as well
1815 5 | be esteemed is he who co–operates with the rulers in correcting
1816 7 | leave the city and carry on operations of war outside, that those
1817 11| one—”To fight against two opponents is a difficult thing,” as
1818 11| And we seem to have spoken opportunely in our former discourse,
1819 11| such laws are apt to be oppressive and that there may sometimes
1820 9 | penalty. And if a brother ora sister intentionally wound
1821 9 | hooting in turn this or that orator—I say that then there is
1822 10| be the best of poets, and orators, and prophets, and priests,
1823 12| conjecture that mind was the orderer of the universe. But these
1824 8 | to abstain from what is ordinarilly deemed a pleasure for the
1825 1 | good Athenian is more than ordinarily good, for he is the only
1826 3 | possibility of extracting ore from them; and they had
1827 4 | in a state before you can organize it?” How ought he to answer
1828 3 | because with them government originated in the authority of a father
1829 4 | produced from a tyranny, and originates in a good lawgiver and an
1830 6 | abundant, and be both an ornament and a benefit to the city.
1831 6 | works will be useful and ornamental; they will provide a pleasing
1832 6 | or of springs, shall be ornamented with plantations and buildings
1833 7 | singers be, not circlets and ornaments of gold, but the reverse.
1834 11| measures that the misfortune of orphanhood may be as little sad to
1835 6 | to have lived a sort of Orphic life, having the use of
1836 9 | same proclamations about outlawry, and there shall be the
1837 8 | refusing to give the man outlet for water; or, again, if
1838 8 | of speech, and will say outright what he thinks best for
1839 1 | nevertheless attempt. At the outset of the discussion, let me
1840 1 | might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet
1841 7 | other hand, the habit of overcoming, from our youth upwards,
1842 2 | leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight
1843 3 | friend; he does indeed far overleap the heads of all mankind
1844 6 | women holding the office of overseer and be divorced for their
1845 9 | calamities such as these overtake him.~Now the boundaries
1846 12| a person having arms is overtaken by the enemy and does not
1847 6 | aught; or, if some necessity overtakes them, the magistrates must
1848 10| prayers, and will utterly overthrow individuals and whole houses
1849 3 | the mean, everything is overthrown, and, in the wantonness
1850 11| partners of the state, and overthrows the foundations of society
1851 4 | exercises have preludes and overtures, which are a sort of artistic
1852 10| savour of fat,” and at last overturn both ship and sailors?~Cleinias.
1853 12| than the body, once more overturned the world, or rather, I
1854 4 | of poverty are constantly overturning governments and changing
1855 9 | and by irrational force overturns many things.~Cleinias. Very
1856 12| places, have been suddenly overwhelmed by floods of water; and
1857 9 | communicated by him with overwhelming force to the murderer and
1858 9 | seed which has touched the ox’s horn, having a heart so
1859 2 | who will call upon the God Paean to testify to the truth
1860 2 | Athenian. Will he not live painfully and to his own disadvantage?~
1861 6 | that some one had a mind to paint a figure in the most beautiful
1862 2 | that their works of art are painted or moulded in the same forms
1863 6 | the endless labour which painters expend upon their pictures—
1864 10| another, such as music and painting create and their companion
1865 2 | exaggeration—their ancient paintings and sculptures are not a
1866 10| charioteers of contending pairs of steeds, or pilots of
1867 3 | of Daedalus, Orpheus and Palamedes—since Marsyas and Olympus
1868 3 | life.~Athenian. Is it not palpable that the chief aim of the
1869 7 | and quiets the restless palpitation of the heart, which is a
1870 10| saying goes, and it would be paltry and ridiculous to prefer
1871 7 | named after the Nymphs, and Pan, and Silenuses, and Satyrs;
1872 8 | were training boxers, or pancratiasts, or any other sort of athletes,
1873 8 | married as well as to men. The pancration shall have a counterpart
1874 7 | perfectly skilled in the Pancratium or boxing or wrestling,
1875 2 | ought to be the enemy of all pandering to the pleasure of the spectators.
1876 7 | to honour with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive
1877 9 | himself full of fear and panic by reason of his violent
1878 7 | what I am saying may seem paradoxical, and at variance with the
1879 6 | in time of need; and this parental feeling already exists in
1880 9 | penalties in the case of parricide apply equally to every other
1881 12| of robbers of temples and parricides and the like, have been
1882 9 | is, that a just action in partaking of the just partakes also
1883 10| certain images and very partial imitations of the truth,
1884 11| not entirely, we may yet partially, cure the evil by legislation.
1885 7 | observe a sort of mean, not participating in the toils of war; and
1886 8 | the magistrates.~Now the participation of fruits shall be ordered
1887 10| I must ask you to be my partner—does not he who talks in
1888 10| examine whether the river is passable by older men like yourselves,
1889 12| class are like birds of passage, taking wing in pursuit
1890 7 | while others select choice passages and long speeches, and make
1891 7 | as the good citizen who passes through life undefiled and
1892 8 | commanders: or, again, if any one pastures his cattle on his neighbour’
1893 11| with the exception of the paternal lot and the fixtures on
1894 10| Stranger, shall we, whose patience failed not when drinking
1895 3 | forming one troop under the patriarchal rule and sovereignty of
1896 3 | Cyrus, though a great and patriotic general, had never given
1897 12| meaning by an ancient tale:—If Patroclus had been brought to the
1898 5 | to the Gods who are the patrons of the state, he shall suffer
1899 8 | not many.~But as touching payments for hire, and contracts
1900 8 | by as dried figs. As to pears, and apples, and pomegranates,
1901 6 | the God who gave wine; and peculiarly dangerous, when a man is
1902 12| like manner before their peers; and he who is found guilty
1903 12| poet says were presented to Peleus by the Gods as a nuptial
1904 3 | better leaders than the Pelopidae; in the next place, they
1905 4 | and of other Hellenes, Peloponnesians will be most acceptable.
1906 6 | and about the Thessalian Penestae. Looking at these and the
1907 6 | likely to occur in thinly–peopled places, and in times of
1908 10| around them all, but is perceived by mind; and therefore by
1909 11| they find to be the right percentage of profit; this shall be
1910 10| reaching the third becomes perceptible to sense. Everything which
1911 8 | many a man and woman into perdition; and from which reason,
1912 5 | legislate with a view to perfecting the form and outline of
1913 3 | distinguished, nor were the performers allowed to confuse one style
1914 8 | frankincense and similar perfumes, used in the service of
1915 1 | sons, or daughters to him, perilling your dearest interests in
1916 9 | will benefit others, if he perish ingloriously, and be cast
1917 5 | while in the latter, he perishes in order that the rest of
1918 12| relations of private life are perjured. Let the law, then, be as
1919 11| may bring an accusation of perjury against witnesses, touching
1920 9 | and also that when the perpetrators return to this world they
1921 4 | retaining none of them, and perpetually afflicted with an endless
1922 8 | knew a way of enacting and perpetuating such a law, which was very
1923 7 | Stranger? and why are you so perplexed in your mind?~Athenian.
1924 3 | come to the throne and was persisting in his design. The Athenians
1925 4 | can be travelled without perspiring, because it is so very short:~
1926 6 | all this?~Cleinias. A very pertinent question, Stranger.~Athenian.
1927 1 | and terror, and the other perturbations of the soul, which arise
1928 11| anyone thinks that he will pervert the power of justice in
1929 10| address to these lost and perverted natures should not be spoken
1930 10| disease in living bodies or pestilence in years or seasons of the
1931 7 | Athenian. Here occurs a strange phenomenon, which certainly cannot
1932 9 | using the language almost of philosophy, beginning at the beginning
1933 5 | observed in the Egyptians and Phoenicians, and many other races, through
1934 11| invoked curses on his son Phoenix, and Theseus upon Hippolytus,
1935 10| vain opinion of all those physical investigators; and I would
1936 11| anybody begs, seeking to pick up a livelihood by unavailing
1937 2 | if we know that the thing pictured or sculptured is a man,
1938 6 | painters expend upon their pictures—they are always putting
1939 7 | we appear to be more like pigs than men, and I am quite
1940 12| And let not the mound be piled higher than would be the
1941 12| their perceptions with the piloting mind, do they not save both
1942 2 | a singing master, he is pinched and hungry, he will certainly
1943 10| attaining to sovereignty and the pinnacle of greatness; and considering
1944 7 | remain awake, to dance to the pipe with the help of the Gods
1945 7 | desire of catching men and of piracy by sea enter into your souls
1946 2 | human life. And the Gods, pitying the toils which our race
1947 5 | and gentle pleasures, and placid desires and loves not insane;
1948 5 | from the greatest of all plagues—not faction, but rather
1949 8 | man who specially honours plainness of speech, and will say
1950 4 | very little stone–pine or plane–wood, which shipwrights
1951 7 | same path, and we call them planets or wanderers.~Cleinias.
1952 6 | shall be ornamented with plantations and buildings for beauty;
1953 8 | the magistrates. And if in planting he does not leave a fair
1954 3 | the fire or not; for the plastic and weaving arts do not
1955 4 | beginning, and the battle of Plataea the completion, of the great
1956 2 | is, however, a much more plausible account of the delusion.~
1957 6 | imitation—I mean of rhapsodists, players on the harp, the flute and
1958 2 | and the Muses to be our playfellows and leaders in the dance;
1959 7 | finding delight in the same playthings, the more solemn institutions
1960 2 | song and dance, under the plea that they have become antiquated.
1961 11| are told that by ingenious pleas and the help of an advocate
1962 5 | whether of body or soul, is pleasanter than the vicious life, and
1963 12| the goods which they have pledged be, and the money given
1964 6 | channels, and make all things plenteous; and if there be a sacred
1965 9 | intercourse of life, affording plentiful examples both of the voluntary
1966 9 | in the case of those who plunder temples. Let him who is
1967 1 | ought of his own accord to plunge into utter degradation.~
1968 9 | softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. These are the
1969 7 | that no silver or golden Plutus should dwell in our state?~
1970 7 | clearly what has been said, pointing out that of all movements
1971 8 | about liberty of speech in poitry, ought to apply equally
1972 6 | may be called the secret police, or wardens of the country;
1973 8 | to pears, and apples, and pomegranates, and similar fruits, there
1974 7 | sacred streams or marshes or pools, provided only that he do
1975 9 | series of our enactments. The poorest legislator will have no
1976 3 | individual is like the mass or populace in a state. And when the
1977 4 | the conflux of several populations might be more disposed to
1978 5 | altars and temples, and portioned out a sacred domain for
1979 9 | nameless and childless and portionless when calamities such as
1980 7 | regard them as matters of positive law is a great absurdity.
1981 8 | has been often affirmed positively by the ancients of these
1982 5 | distribution, let the several possessors feel that their particular
1983 1 | and be ready to die at his post, and yet they are generally
1984 8 | the country, seizing upon posts and lying in ambush, and
1985 7 | down; also the opposite postures which are those of action,
1986 2 | derived from well ordered potations, or whether there are not
1987 11| that no statue can be more potent to grant his requests than
1988 4 | know, was a great naval potentate, who compelled the inhabitants
1989 4 | the hands of a number of potentates. I am supposing that the
1990 7 | trifling customs or usages come pouring in and lengthening out our
1991 11| about these matters where practicable be as follows:—If a man
1992 4 | not only twice as good in practical usefulness as the other,
1993 4 | is a freeman, attends and practises upon freemen; and he carries
1994 4 | them in the dispensaries—practitioners of this sort never talk
1995 1 | you first criticize this praiser of Zeus and the laws of
1996 1 | Stranger, these festivities are praiseworthy where there is a spirit
1997 3 | age, he cannot help always praying for the fulfilment of it.~
1998 3 | what of old Hesiod only preached.~Cleinias. Yes, according
1999 2 | to go to work—this is a precaution which has to be taken against
2000 9 | murder shall observe all the precautionary ceremonies of lavation,
2001 8 | general. But how can we take precautions against the unnatural loves
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