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2002 11| who obeys the tale which precedes the law, and does no wrong
2003 7 | subject fitted rather for precept and admonition than for
2004 12| shall meet in the common precincts of Helios and Apollo, and
2005 12| who have been thrown down precipices and lost their arms; and
2006 9 | better fortune than his predecessors!~Cleinias. Very good.~Athenian.
2007 2 | which lasts, and when he is preeminent in strength and courage,
2008 4 | will be the form of such prefaces? There may be a difficulty
2009 3 | of honour, or in any way preferring that which is really last,
2010 4 | separately, the legislator should prefix a preamble; he should remember
2011 7 | woman during her year of pregnancy should of all women be most
2012 7 | ridiculous law that the pregnant woman shall walk about and
2013 6 | silent and says no more in preliminary proceedings than the litigants,
2014 9 | lighter for those who do not premeditate, but smite upon the instant;
2015 7 | imposes by law. This being premised, there will follow next
2016 3 | the news arrived of mighty preparations being made, and innumerable
2017 8 | provide food and labour in preparing it.~Let us first of all,
2018 9 | instant, and without malice prepense, approaches to the involuntary;
2019 7 | which we by some divine presage and inspiration rightly
2020 12| them; and that she is the preserver of the things which we have
2021 6 | also a God dwelling in man, preserves all things, if it meet with
2022 1 | well enough when under his presidency? The critic, however, has
2023 1 | feast under the control of a president, but always without a ruler
2024 12| many aims, but he should press onward to the one? this
2025 4 | when the Achaeans are hard pressed by the Trojans—he gets angry
2026 3 | existed and had a great prestige; the people of those days
2027 9 | inflicted, and quell his presumption. But if he be innocent,
2028 1 | will not let him off on any pretence, not even at the time of
2029 2 | any one can answer you, or pretend to know, unless he has heard
2030 12| to have been corrupted, pretending to be wise when he is not,
2031 12| or some chance person who pretends to be an instructor of youth,
2032 8 | than his own, under the pretext that in superintending many
2033 7 | and require the utmost prevision.~Cleinias. To be sure.~Athenian.
2034 10| toss a portion of their prey to the dogs, and they, mollified
2035 11| agora shall not ask two prices for that which he sells,
2036 12| that year, shall be high priest; and they shall write up
2037 6 | used. The tenure of the priesthood should always be for a year
2038 3 | and he appears to be the prince of them all; the manner
2039 3 | give them, and especially princesses who had recently grown rich,
2040 10| imprisoned. There shall be three prisons in the state: the first
2041 10| suffer stripes and bonds, or privation of citizenship, or in some
2042 8 | who shall give them this privilege, and they alone shall be
2043 3 | among peoples?~Cleinias. The probability is that ignorance will be
2044 5 | purification and of any other procedure. Take, for example, the
2045 3 | Cresphontes of Messene, Procles and Eurysthenes of Lacedaemon.~
2046 11| orphan and half to him who procured the conviction. If any orphan
2047 12| of envy, and ivory, the product of a dead body, is not a
2048 10| contempt with which the profane will be likely to assail
2049 6 | but also with an eye to professing friends. When a quarrel
2050 8 | capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly, or
2051 5 | utterly bad is in general profligate, and therefore very poor;
2052 3 | mothers and in general of progenitors to rule over their offspring?~
2053 6 | the work of legislation progresses, each law in turn will assign
2054 8 | of love, ought the law to prohibit and forbid them all to exist
2055 8 | most of these desires; the prohibition of excessive wealth is a
2056 9 | what is suitable for our projected construction. Let us then
2057 1 | which is at all equally prominent in the Cretan laws.~Athenian.
2058 9 | of the state:—Whoever by promoting a man to power enslaves
2059 1 | excellently devised for the promotion both of temperance and courage.~
2060 4 | retreat: now we are going to promulgate our laws, and what has preceded
2061 10| years and months, furnish proofs of their existence; and
2062 10| some affirm, and violently propels body by body; or thirdly,
2063 10| men of this class deal in prophecy and jugglery of all kinds,
2064 10| circle at the same time is proportionally distributed to greater and
2065 5 | and distributions may be proportioned to the value of each person’
2066 10| and we should do as he proposes; for if impious discourses
2067 7 | then they are like the props of builders which slip away
2068 9 | demand surety of him whom he prosecutes; three sureties sufficient
2069 9 | determined let them carry on the prosecution at law. The cause shall
2070 2 | pleasure. But as distant prospects are apt to make us dizzy,
2071 10| likewise see and hear the prostrations and invocations which are
2072 4 | man, as men commonly say (Protagoras): the words are far more
2073 5 | be owners of the land and protectors of the allotment. The houses
2074 11| mistress by a slave—and this be provence offspring of the woman and
2075 3 | bouts, the argument has, providentially, come back to the same point,
2076 10| about every way; or the soul provides herself with an external
2077 12| temples, are in other cities provocative of envy, and ivory, the
2078 3 | region about Ilium, when they provoked by their insolence the Trojan
2079 1 | are told that they are the proxeni of a particular state, feel
2080 1 | that our family is the proxenus of your state. I imagine
2081 7 | recited, and was fit for publication or not. Wherefore, O ye
2082 4 | prelude, or composed or published any, as though there was
2083 7 | persons; and they arrange pugilists, and wrestlers as they pair
2084 3 | the argument ought to be pulled up from time to time, and
2085 1 | reason in this matter of pulling the strings of the puppet,
2086 5 | order to effect this, should pump and draw off and divert
2087 4 | accompanies him, and is the punisher of those who fall short
2088 7 | player who teaches and his pupil rendering note for note
2089 9 | contrivance, voluntary and purely malicious, which most often
2090 5 | he attempt the mildest of purgations, may think himself happy
2091 5 | to devise any colony or purifying separation under the circumstances
2092 12| be their accomplices in purloining large sums and save them
2093 8 | which come from abroad, and purple and other dyes which are
2094 12| select judges; and let the pursuer lay his indictment in this
2095 7 | is allowed at all—that of quadrupeds, which is carried on with
2096 6 | who is of the first class quadruple. On the fifth day the rulers
2097 7 | in the habit of keeping quails and cocks, which they train
2098 4 | and order the last without qualification. But if I had an extremely
2099 5 | special crises of the state, qualifications of property must be unequal,
2100 6 | how the judges are to be qualified, and who they are to be.
2101 7 | commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one
2102 9 | has himself inflicted, and quell his presumption. But if
2103 1 | legislators, instead of gently questioning them, seeing that both we
2104 5 | propitious to him, and will quicken his seed. And he who deems
2105 7 | that the slowest is the quickest. And if what I say is true,
2106 7 | and calm in the soul, and quiets the restless palpitation
2107 5 | entire city and country radiate from this point. The twelve
2108 2 | his own proper sense, he rages and roars without rhyme
2109 8 | which are unfit for making raisins and wine, or for laying
2110 7 | Olympia, or about men who ran in the long course, and
2111 11| abominable, and extortionate ransom—these are the sort of practices,
2112 3 | entertained, seem to have all rapidly vanished away; with the
2113 11| declares to have been heard and ratified by the Gods, and Amyntor
2114 10| power are in an inverse ratio to each other in respect
2115 10| but let him receive the rations of food appointed by the
2116 2 | sound of the voice which reaches and educates the soul, we
2117 10| neighbour to this, and after reaching the third becomes perceptible
2118 8 | aspirations, if they could only be realized in all states, and, God
2119 10| is that the whole state reaps the fruit of their impiety,
2120 2 | Athenian. How, then, shall we reassure him, and get him to sing?
2121 3 | as the Titans when they rebelled against God, leading a life
2122 8 | impossible. I was thinking of the rebelliousness of the human heart when
2123 6 | is violently excited, and rebels against him who says that
2124 4 | Odysseus is introduced, rebuking Agamemnon because he desires
2125 9 | of error, we may begin by recalling them somewhat more vividly
2126 11| consider what amount of receipts, after deducting expenses,
2127 12| the state, he, like the receiver of the exile, shall undergo
2128 | recently
2129 7 | dancing imitates musical recitation, and aims at preserving
2130 2 | in hearing a rhapsodist recite well the Iliad and Odyssey,
2131 2 | tender souls of children, reciting in their strains all the
2132 8 | living on the higher ground recklessly lets off the water on his
2133 4 | as we said, hardly worth reckoning in the catalogue of goods.
2134 10| opinions, and reflections, and recollections are prior to length and
2135 11| and if they are able to reconcile them they shall be formally
2136 9 | metre or out of metre have recorded their advice about the conduct
2137 3 | under Cambyses, and again recovered under Darius? Shall I try
2138 4 | whence do you draw your recruits in the present enterprise?~
2139 5 | far superior in beauty and rectitude and excellence and reputation,
2140 9 | crimes of his race, an ever–recurring curse;—against this you
2141 7 | pledges which may be hereafter redeemed and removed from our state,
2142 12| further selection until they reduce them to one–half, if they
2143 5 | what is to be done with the redundant or deficient, and devise
2144 6 | speaking of contests, the law refers to the judges of gymnastics
2145 7 | quite like a poem. When I reflected upon all these words of
2146 10| and true opinions, and reflections, and recollections are prior
2147 7 | laws; and no one of them reflects that there will follow what
2148 6 | let the man or woman who refrains in such matters be held
2149 3 | they found that their only refuge was in themselves and in
2150 7 | what will follow, lest the regarders of omens should take alarm
2151 1 | As in the human body, the regimen which does good in one way
2152 6 | streams in the fields and regions which lie underneath, may
2153 11| their time they are deeply regretted by them; but to bad men
2154 1 | meals and certain persons regularly appointed under others to
2155 6 | weight, and number, which regulates and apportions them. But
2156 6 | the superintendents and regulators of these games, and they,
2157 9 | exist where the passion reigns which is strongest and most
2158 11| honours, the heart of the God rejoices, and he is ready to answer
2159 2 | Exactly.~Athenian. And when rejoicing in our good fortune, we
2160 12| wrong way, then, by the relaxation of that justice which is
2161 2 | education, has been often relaxed and corrupted in human life.
2162 9 | conspired with the slave shall reliable to an action for kidnapping.
2163 3 | insolence the Trojan war, relied upon the power of the Assyrians
2164 3 | willing to come to their relief, with the exception of the
2165 9 | to offend, and they would relieve the city of bad citizens.
2166 4 | servant who is ill; and so he relieves the master of the house
2167 2 | years, he is afraid and reluctant to sing;—he has no pleasure
2168 5 | means only, can hardly be remarkable for riches, any more than
2169 4 | conduces to a perpetual remembrance of them, and giving a reasonable
2170 9 | such a case the law will remit the punishment of death,
2171 9 | sufferer of his own accord remits the guilt of homicide to
2172 5 | who are in want, sometimes remitting and sometimes giving, holding
2173 3 | and of the survival of a remnant?~Cleinias. Every one is
2174 10| any one in gentle terms remonstrate with the like of them, when
2175 5 | fills her full of evil and remorse; or when he does not endure
2176 11| about the money and the remover of the money, that the city
2177 9 | the language of the many rend asunder the honourable and
2178 4 | and right, and will thus render our state, if the Gods co–
2179 2 | age; that in age we may renew our youth, and forget our
2180 6 | temper of mind is only the renewal of trouble. But if men must
2181 11| if they wish, lawfully renounce their son by the proclamation
2182 11| suffer these things must be renounced not only by his father,
2183 12| every power in the state is rent asunder from every other;
2184 10| of an individual demands reparation. There should be a common
2185 5 | be under no obligation to repay either capital or interest.
2186 9 | them in a moment of anger repeats the deed, let him be an
2187 4 | sailors themselves, directly repel their enemies. Better for
2188 3 | rightly say that Hellas repelled the invader; for the truth
2189 1 | would have no difficulty in replying quite truly, that war is
2190 4 | he is often compelled to represent men of opposite dispositions,
2191 12| spirits of that day might have reproached the son of Menoetius with
2192 4 | You might as well hope to reproduce the character of Nestor,
2193 12| require to be punished and reproved, what is the nature of virtue
2194 4 | rewarding some actions and reproving others, and degrading those
2195 9 | which is of the highest repute for virtue and also for
2196 10| and then proceed to the requisite enactments.~Cleinias. Yes,
2197 2 | imitated, ever know whether the resemblance is truthfully executed?
2198 10| the one which mind chiefly resembles; this I will bring to your
2199 7 | keeps awake as long he can, reserving only so much time for sleep
2200 8 | spring, or collected in reservoirs, either by poisonous substances,
2201 11| the God is restoring and resettling—no one, that is, of the
2202 10| they are living beings and reside in bodies, and in this way
2203 9 | warden of the city is in residence shall punish him; or if
2204 9 | he be a stranger but not resident, shall be imprisoned during
2205 10| the sun this way and that, resides within the circular and
2206 6 | and mother’s side, who are residing at home, including cousins,
2207 5 | yields to her, and does not resist and teach or convince her
2208 6 | exert their utmost powers of resistance, and be far too much for
2209 5 | death or exile in the last resort. For in this way we commonly
2210 6 | either in proportion to their respective measure of virtue and education.
2211 1 | in accordance with the response of the Oracle, and offered
2212 12| departed priests in alternate responses, declaring their blessedness
2213 7 | mistake, from a due sense of responsibility, and from a consciousness
2214 12| seller shall himself be responsible; both the agent and the
2215 11| are in need at the welcome resting–place, and gives them peace
2216 11| arise in such cases, and the restitutions which the law allows. And
2217 3 | often be too happy if he can restore health, and make the body
2218 10| of sound mind let him be restored to sane company, but if
2219 3 | disturb us.~Cleinias. Let us resume the argument in that spirit.
2220 8 | shipowners and merchants and retailers and innkeepers and tax collectors
2221 5 | families should be always retained, and neither increased nor
2222 1 | regulations. In order to retaliate, an Athenian has only to
2223 11| begun the quarrel or is only retaliating, let any elder who is present
2224 9 | kindred, follows the law of retaliation, and ordains that he who
2225 5 | makes him quick to learn, retentive, shrewd, and aided by art
2226 9 | whole family. These are the retributions of Heaven, and by such punishments
2227 12| Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then, returning to the council, I would
2228 1 | the first place, then, the revellers as well as the soldiers
2229 1 | of Sparta, will you find revelries and the many incitements
2230 7 | citizens, and are honoured and reverenced by the just and temperate,
2231 11| work in a given time, not reverencing the God who gives him the
2232 10| If Cleinias and this our reverend company succeed in bringing
2233 5 | young ought always to be reverential. A sensible legislator will
2234 5 | honours his kindred, and reveres those who share in the same
2235 12| as I said, the case is reversed.~Cleinias. How so?~Athenian.
2236 1 | the dead. And the lawgiver reviewing his work, will appoint guardians
2237 11| indulges in these sort of revilings, whether he has begun the
2238 3 | of metallurgy had again revived.~Cleinias. There could not
2239 3 | evil plight. Their youth revolted; and when the soldiers returned
2240 6 | often shown by the frequent revolts of the Messenians, and the
2241 4 | of conduct, praising and rewarding some actions and reproving
2242 8 | part, completed. But as to rhapsodes and the like, and the contests
2243 2 | greatest pleasure in hearing a rhapsodist recite well the Iliad and
2244 6 | and of imitation—I mean of rhapsodists, players on the harp, the
2245 2 | like Homer, will exhibit a rhapsody, another a performance on
2246 7 | whether metrical or without rhythmical divisions, compositions
2247 7 | Sauromatides, who not only ride on horseback like men, but
2248 1 | future warrior should learn riding, or some other exercise,
2249 10| the violation of the civil rights of an individual demands
2250 3 | would have a natural fear ringing in their ears which would
2251 2 | proper sense, he rages and roars without rhyme or reason;
2252 6 | language, and the numerous robberies and lawless life of the
2253 12| convicted.~Theft is a mean, and robbery a shameless thing; and none
2254 12| They shall be decked in a robe all of white, and there
2255 12| improbable; and he who steals or robs contrary to the law, is
2256 11| experienced persons about the rogueries and adulterations of the
2257 11| prelude about all this sort of roguery, like the preludes of our
2258 12| serve in war who is on the roll or appointed to some special
2259 6 | invention of the present romance. I certainly should not
2260 8 | soul. These are, perhaps, romantic aspirations; but they are
2261 8 | which they will take no root; and that I would command
2262 10| And so holding fast to the rope we will venture upon the
2263 11| a painter, shall give a rough sketch of the cases in which
2264 2 | him alone, and trains and rubs him down privately, and
2265 1 | no reason why we should rudely quarrel with one another
2266 4 | home; and yet, owing to the ruggedness of the soil, not providing
2267 3 | Then, as time went on, a rumour reached us that Darius had
2268 11| lawful; and he may arrest the runaway slave of any of his friends
2269 8 | practice, will first summon the runner;—he will appear armed, for
2270 12| the citizens themselves rushing off into other cities, when
2271 6 | there the weary frame of the rustic, worn with toil, will receive
2272 12| world is likely to appear ruthless and uncivilized; it is a
2273 3 | races. And as they hate ruthlessly and horribly, so are they
2274 8 | ridicule of fools would ryot deter us from hanging up
2275 10| guilty of, whether he have sacrificed publicly or privately to
2276 10| shall be the punishment of sacrilege, whether fraudulent or violent,
2277 3 | Athenian. Did you never remark, sage friend, that all men, and
2278 3 | to anything, too large a sail to a vessel, too much food
2279 4 | said of the arts of the sailor, and the pilot, and the
2280 4 | think that he may give a sample for the instruction of himself
2281 10| priestesses, who see to the sanctity of such things, and let
2282 10| mind let him be restored to sane company, but if not, and
2283 7 | slowest as the swiftest, and sang the praises of the vanquished
2284 6 | friendships from a feeling of satiety; wherefore a man and his
2285 11| poet, or maker of iambic or satirical lyric verse, shall not be
2286 7 | Pan, and Silenuses, and Satyrs; and also those in which
2287 11| he lives in a state of savageness and moroseness, and pays
2288 5 | first—I am speaking of the saver and not of the spender—is
2289 12| previous life, by reason of the saving virtue which is in them.~
2290 10| libations of wine and the savour of fat,” and at last overturn
2291 3 | from them; and they had scarcely any means of felling timber.
2292 11| practices, by which they scare the multitude out of their
2293 4 | time to time appear on the scene?~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian.
2294 2 | Athenian. Let us follow the scent like hounds, and go in pursuit
2295 12| also shared in the whole scheme of education proposed by
2296 7 | for youth to go to their schoolmasters. Now neither sheep nor any
2297 9 | practise medicine without science, were to come upon the gentleman
2298 7 | Wherefore, O ye sons and scions of the softer Muses, first
2299 1 | will protect us from this scorching sun. Being no longer young,
2300 9 | him as many blows with the scourge as he has himself inflicted,
2301 9 | judges are well trained and scrupulously tested, the determination
2302 6 | the magistrates, and the scrutinies of them? If we reflect,
2303 2 | that the thing pictured or sculptured is a man, who has received
2304 2 | their ancient paintings and sculptures are not a whit better or
2305 8 | this enactment, declares in scurrilous terms that we are making
2306 4 | are there harbours on the seaboard?~Cleinias. Excellent harbours,
2307 5 | how many in which, having searched out and beheld the objects
2308 8 | of the Magnetes, or holy seats of other ancient deities,
2309 6 | which is by nature prone to secrecy and stealth on account of
2310 5 | the following manner: The section which is near the city shall
2311 9 | and either from sacred or secular places—and these are not
2312 5 | diminished. This may be secured for the whole city in the
2313 9 | violence and stirring up sedition contrary to law, him we
2314 8 | in the soul of him who is seduced the habit of courage, or
2315 8 | courage, or in the soul of the seducer the principle of temperance?
2316 12| for them, the claim of the seeker shall not be allowed after
2317 12| man who would be perfect) seeks for reputation with, but
2318 3 | occasion they had gained a seemingly impossible victory, and
2319 8 | every part of the country, seizing upon posts and lying in
2320 9 | drawing him into avarice and selfishness, avoiding pain and pursuing
2321 11| and adulterations of the sellers, and shall write up what
2322 2 | love to think of our former selves; and gladly institute contests
2323 6 | the greater number of the senators will have to be left during
2324 8 | next in order to the five seniors. Concerning arms, and all
2325 10| Cleinias. What is it?~Athenian. Sensation and power are in an inverse
2326 10| may be said to be akin to senselessness and folly?~Cleinias. That
2327 5 | always to be reverential. A sensible legislator will rather exhort
2328 9 | persuade him has obtained the sentence against him to forgive him.
2329 4 | attainment of just and noble sentiments: this was said by us, if
2330 4 | all his laws, and to each separately, the legislator should prefix
2331 3 | power, owing to unnatural separations and combinations of them,
2332 10| call upon them now in all seriousness to come to the demonstration
2333 8 | undergoing the excessive and servile toils which extinguish wantonness,
2334 6 | to greater matters, the seventeen composed of the fives and
2335 3 | true.~Athenian. There is a seventh kind of rule which is awarded
2336 7 | vulgar music, he deems the severer kind cold and displeasing.
2337 6 | last, and is the fire of sexual lust, which kindles in men
2338 11| tossed by the storm, or cool shade in the heat; and then instead
2339 12| quite rightly said to be our shades or images; for the true
2340 2 | that just and unjust are shadows only, and that injustice,
2341 3 | arrangement there are some shadowy traces still remaining;
2342 1 | and doubtless there are shady places under the lofty trees,
2343 10| offices, and their prosperity shakes your faith—you have known
2344 7 | bodies are benefited by shakings and movements, when they
2345 | shalt
2346 2 | proper parts and colours and shapes, must we not also know whether
2347 11| wrong. He who in any way shares in the illiberality of retail
2348 8 | however forbids strangers from sharing in the sort which is not
2349 8 | nothing to do with laws about shipowners and merchants and retailers
2350 7 | severally to be imparted. As the shipwright first lays down the lines
2351 4 | pine or plane–wood, which shipwrights always require for the interior
2352 11| are at the service of him sho is willing to pay for them.
2353 7 | melodies and rhythms. It is shocking for a whole harmony to be
2354 1 | even in winter have not a shoe to their foot, and are without
2355 1 | own accord to a doctor’s shop, and takes medicine, is
2356 4 | streets with merchants and shopkeepers, and begetting in the souls
2357 4 | accustomed to be often leaping on shore, and again to come running
2358 3 | nor in the most unmusical shouts of the multitude, as in
2359 5 | quick to learn, retentive, shrewd, and aided by art divine
2360 7 | to learn others. Do not shrink from answering.~Athenian.
2361 7 | who also preside over the shuttles and the whole art of spinning?
2362 7 | free the neck and hands and sides, working with energy and
2363 2 | And yet the story of the Sidonian Cadmus, which is so improbable,
2364 12| to be very careful not to sift against justice, as for
2365 6 | the name does not much signify, but every one who has the
2366 10| compare them to dogs who have silenced by wolves.~Cleinias. A thing
2367 7 | the Nymphs, and Pan, and Silenuses, and Satyrs; and also those
2368 3 | would they not, I say, be simpler and more manly, and also
2369 11| depositor, violating the simplest and noblest of laws which
2370 3 | and evil, they in their simplicity believed what they heard
2371 12| cords, and girders, and sinews—one nature diffused in many
2372 10| this opinion may be fairly singled out and characterized as
2373 3 | appears to me to have been singularly fortunate, and just what
2374 10| have become more criminal sink into the abyss, that is
2375 5 | commonly dispose of great sinners who are incurable, and are
2376 5 | pass through life without sinning against the stranger. And
2377 12| death may have no great sins to be punished in the world
2378 1 | converse with his Olympian sire, and was inspired by him
2379 4 | accepted of all men, when he sits down on the tripod of the
2380 6 | for a woman shall be from sixteen to twenty years at the longest—
2381 8 | armour—we ought to call in skilful persons, who shall judge
2382 8 | husbandmen sell (such as skins and all kinds of clothing,
2383 2 | cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness
2384 5 | to despair by his unjust slanders of them. And so he makes
2385 9 | effect there would be no slayers of mothers, or impious hands
2386 9 | a slave be convicted of slaying a freeman voluntarily, either
2387 6 | from the common meal, or sleeps out, if only for one day
2388 5 | up him who is by nature sleepy and dull, and makes him
2389 5 | those who have been but slenderly proven by education. Let
2390 1 | himself again when he had slept off the influence of the
2391 3 | the kingdom, and first one slew the other because he could
2392 7 | the bow, the javelin, and sling, and the girls too, if they
2393 8 | the throwing of stones by slings and by hand: and laws shall
2394 9 | intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes
2395 10| should impart swiftness and slowness in due proportion to larger
2396 6 | enactments of law may be left to slumber; but, if they are disorderly,
2397 7 | for by reason of their smallness and frequent occurrence,
2398 8 | heavily armed, to run over smoother ground. There remains the
2399 2 | aims only at swiftness and smoothness and a brutish noise, and
2400 10| gently reason with him, smothering our anger:—O my son, we
2401 7 | beasts is subdued by nets and snares, and not by the victory
2402 6 | but when chastened by a soberer God, receives a fair associate
2403 1 | was right or wrong in such societies.~Athenian. Likely enough;
2404 7 | chase wherever and whither soever they will; but the hunter
2405 7 | let the female sex live softly and waste money and have
2406 10| lightness, hardness and softness, blackness and whiteness,
2407 8 | age, let the time of their sojourn commence after their fifteenth
2408 8 | himself; and he shall pay no sojourner’s tax, however small, except
2409 8 | general for strangers, whether sojourners who may be dwelling in the
2410 11| be a citizen or a metic, sojourning in the city, within thirty
2411 12| Prytanes, shall have the sole charge of what concerns
2412 7 | same playthings, the more solemn institutions of the state
2413 12| natural growth of hair and soles. For these are the extremities,
2414 6 | offspring should be compact and solid, quiet and compounded properly;
2415 5 | alive or not, he is equally solitary.—Worthy of honour is he
2416 1 | preferred to be by himself in solitude, and there contend with
2417 9 | disgraceful for Lycurgus and Solon and others who were legislators
2418 4 | nothing can be easier or sooner effected, granting our supposition.~
2419 10| private mysteries and the Sophists, as they are termed, with
2420 11| heal the fears which the sorcerer arouses, and to tell them
2421 11| that they can do injury by sorceries, and incantations, and magic
2422 7 | rhythms and melodies most sorrowful to hear; and he who at the
2423 2 | given men to lighten the sourness of old age; that in age
2424 3 | their parents, which of all sovereignties is the most just?~Cleinias.
2425 8 | increase in which that which is sown is not likely to grow? Now
2426 7 | explain them to you in a brief space of time; whereas if they
2427 8 | dearth of antagonists to spar by ourselves? In what other
2428 5 | this reason, he who has a spark of caution in him, will
2429 3 | be hill shepherds—small sparks of the human race preserved
2430 1 | pain, exhibited among us Spartans in certain hand–to–hand
2431 7 | Goddess, carry shield or spear, or stand up nobly for their
2432 6 | which kindles in men every species of wantonness and madness.
2433 1 | of expectations; and the specific name of fear, when the expectation
2434 6 | state the best and fairest specimens of children which they can.
2435 1 | we may observe that any speculation about laws turns almost
2436 4 | afraid that the course of my speculations is leading me to say something
2437 7 | those who have to acquire a speedy and useful knowledge of
2438 5 | the saver and not of the spender—is not always bad; he may
2439 12| and that Clotho or the spinster is the second of them, and
2440 8 | aware that most men, in spite of their lawless natures,
2441 3 | brought them up.~Cleinias. A splendid education truly!~Athenian.
2442 4 | days when all things were spontaneous and abundant. And of this
2443 2 | skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something,
2444 7 | Gods cannot like us to be spreading a false report of them.~
2445 3 | of things has there not sprung all that we now are and
2446 5 | to introduce citizens of spurious birth and education, if
2447 7 | private life in cities, stability in the laying down of laws
2448 8 | up compete naked in the stadium and the double course, and
2449 3 | And they would naturally stamp upon their children, and
2450 5 | should be four different standards appointed according to the
2451 2 | I should rather say, How statesmanlike, how worthy of a legislator!
2452 11| honour the images, raising statues of them which we adore;
2453 4 | advantage, such as strength, or stature, or again birth: but he
2454 6 | election, but the lowest may stay away with impunity; and
2455 12| first is he who comes and stays throughout the summer; this
2456 12| many things, but to look steadily at one thing, and on this
2457 1 | to–hand fights; also in stealing with the prospect of getting
2458 10| charioteers of contending pairs of steeds, or pilots of vessels? Perhaps
2459 6 | that “walls ought to be of steel and iron, and not of earth;
2460 2 | to be able to follow the steps of the rhythm and the notes
2461 7 | to our women, who are the stewards of them, and who also preside
2462 3 | kept quiet by a hint from a stick. Such was the good order
2463 12| live for ever under the stigma of cowardice. And let the
2464 5 | of births by rewards and stigmas, or we may meet the evil
2465 3 | entrusted to him: he must be stigmatized as ignorant, even though
2466 7 | writinig, if nature has not stimulated them to acquire these accomplishments
2467 5 | pleasures, and vehement and stinging desires, and loves utterly
2468 10| whom the poet compares to stingless drones?~Cleinias. And the
2469 9 | factions, using violence and stirring up sedition contrary to
2470 12| anything which has been stolen, he shall undergo the same
2471 8 | increase, or sowing them in stony places, in which they will
2472 8 | and silver, every man will stoop to any art or contrivance,
2473 9 | a similar nature. But we stopped short, because we saw that
2474 8 | which nature intends to be stored. Let this be the law, then,
2475 8 | who tastes the common or storing fruits of autumn, whether
2476 12| the salvation of ships in storms as well as in fair weather?
2477 12| those who at sea, and in stormy places, have been suddenly
2478 7 | infancy in the best and straightest manner?~Cleinias. Certainly.~
2479 12| on his return home shall straightway go, and if he have discovered
2480 10| follows the second, which was strangely enough termed the ninth
2481 1 | we are, if only for the strangeness of the paradox, which asserts
2482 11| disease of the stone, or of strangury, or epilepsy, or some other
2483 10| a clever man, is full of stratagem and deceit—men of this class
2484 2 | him who “draws near and stretches out his hand against his
2485 6 | infractions of the perfect and strict rule of justice. And this
2486 1 | his power, and at last the string of his tongue is loosened,
2487 11| be beaten with stripes—a stripe for a drachma, according
2488 9 | of her, and is hard to be striven against and contended with,
2489 5 | or has acquired by any stroke of fortune that which is
2490 9 | rescue, let him receive 100 strokes of the whip, by order of
2491 9 | passion reigns which is strongest and most prevalent among
2492 7 | down, and the fair super–structure falls because the old foundations
2493 3 | Then now we seem to have stumbled upon the beginnings of legislation.~
2494 3 | And they cannot help being stupid, since they proclaim by
2495 3 | and well fitted to produce sturdy race able to live in the
2496 4 | servants, who are also styled doctors.~Cleinias. Very
2497 6 | a convenient number for sub–division. If we divide the
2498 8 | this, again, they shall subdivide into twelve lesser divisions,
2499 7 | these there are two further subdivisions. Of the serious, one kind
2500 8 | man may easily know how to subdue them? He will consecrate
2501 6 | whom the day of slavery subdues.~ Different persons have
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