Dialogue

 1 Intro|          his theme. The idea of the king or statesman and the illustration
 2 Intro|     juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side with the bird-catcher;
 3 Intro|         side with the bird-catcher; king or vermin-destroyer are
 4 Intro| anticipation that the rivals of the king will be found in the class
 5 Intro|             the characteristic of a king or royal person. And the
 6 Intro|       discover the true herdsman or king of men. But before we can
 7 Intro|       pattern, we will separate the king from his subordinates or
 8 Intro|             return once more to the king or statesman, and proceed
 9 Intro|         despair of finding the true king. (6) The sciences which
10 Intro|     implanted by education, and the king or statesman completes the
11 Intro|          not first ask, whether the king, statesman, master, householder,
12 Intro|      physician, so the adviser of a king has royal science and is
13 Intro|          has royal science and is a king. And the master of a large
14 Intro|             that the science of the king, statesman, and householder
15 Intro|        rather than to action. For a king rules with his mind, and
16 Intro|              And the science of the king is of the latter nature;
17 Intro|           lifeless objects. And the king is not like the master-builder,
18 Intro|           in the ponds of the Great King, and of the nurseries of
19 Intro|         need not say with which the king is concerned. And land-herds
20 Intro|           and the hornless, and the king is concerned with the hornless;
21 Intro|           mixing the breed; and the king or statesman has the care
22 Intro|           of the bird-taker and the king, who may be seen scampering
23 Intro|        guilty in our account of the king. The first and grand error
24 Intro|             was in choosing for our king a god, who belongs to the
25 Intro|           And yet the figure of the king is still defective. We have
26 Intro|          and in separating the true king from his rivals.~I will
27 Intro|            now let us return to our king or statesman, and transfer
28 Intro|            the like, but not to the king or statesman. Further, there
29 Intro|         that the real rivals of the king will be discovered. I am
30 Intro|     magistrate, as at Athens to the King Archon. At last, then, we
31 Intro|         distinguished from the true king or statesman. And here I
32 Intro|      certainly is the business of a king; and yet the best thing
33 Intro|           should rule, but that the king should rule, for the varieties
34 Intro|           has royal science he is a king, whether he be so in fact
35 Intro|             men despair of the true king ever appearing among them;
36 Intro|             made, the nature of the king will be unalloyed. Now there
37 Intro|         rest, is the science of the king or statesman.~Once more
38 Intro|           picture, Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than
39 Intro|       Sophist. In the Statesman the king or statesman is discovered
40 Intro|           the genus under which the king falls, we proceed to distinguish
41 Intro|       attempt. As a parallel to the king we select the worker in
42 Intro|            so in the Statesman, the king or statesman is the dialectician,
43 Intro|         private station, is still a king. Whether he has the power
44 Intro|            Plato’s later style.~The king is the personification of
45 Intro|  dialectician is also the only true king or statesman. In the execution
46 Intro|             fancifully said to be a king; but neither they nor Plato
47 Intro|            a physician, and he is a king who has the knowledge of
48 Intro|          who has the knowledge of a king. But how the king, one or
49 Intro|    knowledge of a king. But how the king, one or more, is to obtain
50 Intro|            no respecter of persons: king and vermin-taker are all
51 Intro|           have been a time when the king was a god, but he now is
52 Intro|               when he thinks of the king running after his subjects,
53 Intro|         converted into a beneficent king. The sophist too is no longer,
54 Intro|       Not-being, but concerning the king and statesman. We perceive,
55 State|     STRANGER: And are ‘statesman,’ ‘king,’ ‘master,’ or ‘householder,’
56 State|        surely the science of a true king is royal science?~YOUNG
57 State|           too, is evident, that the king cannot do much with his
58 State|         Then, shall we say that the king has a greater affinity to
59 State|          the kingly science and the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.~
60 State|        divisions shall we place the king?— Is he a judge and a kind
61 State|         dealer, which parts off the king from the herald.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
62 State|          over lifeless objects;—the king has a nobler function, which
63 State|           in the ponds of the Great King; or you may have seen similar
64 State|           be assumed.~STRANGER: The king is clearly the shepherd
65 State|    ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with
66 State|             the pig-driver with the king. According to this explanation
67 State|         road to the definition of a king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: By all
68 State|             which distinguishes the king from all other shepherds.~
69 State|          can our argument about the king be true and unimpeachable?
70 State|          light on the nature of the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very good;
71 State|        illustrate the nature of the king. For when the world turned
72 State|           in the delineation of the king and the statesman in our
73 State|          when we were asked about a king and statesman of the present
74 State|          even higher than that of a king; whereas the statesmen who
75 State|             in such an art than any king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
76 State|           simplicity led us to rank king and tyrant together, whereas
77 State|           of management is the true king and statesman?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
78 State|          judgment the figure of the king is not yet perfected; like
79 State|          because we imagined that a king required grand illustrations,
80 State|            STRANGER: The art of the king has been separated from
81 State|           who are the rivals of the king in the formation of the
82 State|          enterprises; in Egypt, the king himself is not allowed to
83 State|             chosen by lot to be the King Archon.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
84 State|             separated from the true king or Statesman, if we are
85 State|         separate them from the wise king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That, as
86 State|            manner the business of a king, and yet the best thing
87 State|          discover some image of the king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What sort
88 State|            who knows, we call him a king; and if he rules according
89 State|            same—he will be called a king; and thus the five names
90 State|        origin of the tyrant and the king, of oligarchies, and aristocracies,
91 State|             more nearly akin to the king, and more difficult to discern;
92 State|          which he receives from the king and legislator,—showing
93 State|            who are able to act; the king ought to know what is and
94 State|           picture, Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than