Dialogue

 1 Repub|        twice six, or three times four, or six times two, or four
 2 Repub|       four, or six times two, or four times three, "for this sort
 3 Repub|          of a State must include four or five men. ~Clearly. ~
 4 Repub|       for example, producing for four, and laboring four times
 5 Repub| producing for four, and laboring four times as long and as much
 6 Repub|     Undoubtedly. ~Then more than four citizens will be required;
 7 Repub|      just as in sounds there are four notes out of which all the
 8 Repub|       measure declare that he is four cubits high, can he help
 9 Repub|        Very good. ~If there were four things, and we were searching
10 Repub|          virtues, which are also four in number? ~Clearly. ~First
11 Repub|          the State of one of the four virtues have somehow or
12 Repub|        consider three out of the four virtues to have been discovered
13 Repub|         determine which of these four qualities by its presence
14 Repub|         innumerable; there being four special ones which are deserving
15 Repub|        soul, and is exhibited in four forms. ~What are they? he
16 Repub|      tell the order in which the four evil forms appeared to me
17 Repub|           corresponding to these four divisions, let there be
18 Repub|          divisions, let there be four faculties in the soul-reason
19 Repub|    satisfied, as before, to have four divisions; two for intellect
20 Repub|    enough? ~Would you say six or four years? he asked. ~Say five
21 Repub|                       BOOK VIII: FOUR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES,
22 Repub|        remember, that there were four principal ones, and that
23 Repub|          asked you what were the four forms of government of which
24 Repub|       wish to hear what were the four constitutions of which you
25 Repub|          is easily answered: the four governments of which I spoke,
26 Repub|    obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike,
27 Repub|        another, and another, and four others, making eight in