Dialogue

 1 Repub|    ever would wish to have the choice of saying or doing more
 2 Repub|     then, when he has made his choice, he may found his State. ~
 3 Repub|       them. ~God, whether from choice or from necessity, made
 4 Repub|       first lot have the first choice, and the life which he chooses
 5 Repub|     know that this is the best choice both in life and after death.
 6 Repub|   spoken, he who had the first choice came forward and in a moment
 7 Repub|     breast and lament over his choice, forgetting the proclamation
 8 Repub| laughable and strange; for the choice of the souls was in most
 9 Repub|  Odysseus having yet to make a choice, and his lot happened to
10 Repub|     went in the order of their choice to Lachesis, who sent with
11 Repub|       and the fulfiller of the choice: this genius led the souls