Dialogue

 1 Repub|           applauded; what is termed oligarchy comes next; this is not
 2 Repub|             which naturally follows oligarchy, although very different:
 3 Repub|           and, after that, consider oligarchy and the oligarchical man;
 4 Repub|           form intermediate between oligarchy and aristocracy? ~Very true. ~
 5 Repub|             being in a mean between oligarchy and the perfect State, will
 6 Repub|          all means. ~I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. ~
 7 Repub|           of government do you term oligarchy? ~A government resting on
 8 Repub|            change from timocracy to oligarchy arises? ~Yes. ~Well, I said,
 9 Repub|            lower in another, as the oligarchy is more or less exclusive;
10 Repub|      generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established. ~Yes, he
11 Repub|           the first great defect of oligarchy? ~Clearly. ~And here is
12 Repub|           and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there may be many other
13 Repub|          evils. ~Very likely. ~Then oligarchy, or the form of government
14 Repub|         like the State out of which oligarchy came. ~Let us then consider
15 Repub|            how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is
16 Repub|         sort? ~How? ~The good which oligarchy proposed to itself and the
17 Repub| money-getting were also the ruin of oligarchy? ~True. ~And democracy has
18 Repub|             next step? ~The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy;
19 Repub|         which is generated alike in oligarchy and democracy, and is the
20 Repub|         people and being friends of oligarchy? True. ~And the end is that