Dialogue

 1 Intro|      characteristic of a king or royal person. And the rule of
 2 Intro|       which are most akin to the royal are the sciences of the
 3 Intro|        the adviser of a king has royal science and is a king. And
 4 Intro|          found the political and royal science. And yet we have
 5 Intro|   musician of his flock. But the royal shepherd has numberless
 6 Intro|         define the nature of the royal functions. The myth gave
 7 Intro|       political differs from the royal science. Thus we have drawn
 8 Intro|          example of weaving. The royal art has been separated from
 9 Intro|          or out of the fire. The royal or political art has nothing
10 Intro|         to economical and not to royal science. Nor am I referring
11 Intro|        monarchy; and when he has royal science he is a king, whether
12 Intro|    elements, which adhere to the royal science, and must be drawn
13 Intro|         to be separated from the royal art; when the separation
14 Intro|      will endeavour to view this royal science by the light of
15 Intro|          for making the web. The royal science is queen of educators,
16 Intro|         states is that which the royal science weaves, combining
17 Intro|          art of weaving with the royal science, trying to separate
18 Intro|   conception of the political or royal science as, from another
19 State|        science of a true king is royal science?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
20 State|        his art, be truly called ‘royal’?~YOUNG SOCRATES: He certainly
21 State|     science may be called either royal or political or economical;
22 State|        animals. For, surely, the royal science is not like that
23 State|        of these two contains the royal art, for it is evident to
24 State|         found, being at once the royal and political.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
25 State|         have described a sort of royal form, we have not as yet
26 State|         or better right than the royal science to care for human
27 State|          we should call this the royal or political art, as though
28 State|         we intend to pass to the royal class, which is the highest
29 State|        innumerable rivals of the royal race who claim to have the
30 State|        in the previous case, the royal science differed from the
31 State|   disappears, the search for the royal science will be impossible.~
32 State| literally nothing to do with the royal art of which we are in search.~
33 State|           and separated from the royal and political science.~YOUNG
34 State|       and certainly do not claim royal science.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
35 State|          not profess to share in royal science?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
36 State|       not mistaken, we said that royal power was a science?~YOUNG
37 State|     truly call those who possess royal science, whether they rule
38 State| supposing him to have wisdom and royal power. Do you see why this
39 State|        No one who really had the royal science, if he had been
40 State|          has.~STRANGER: Then the royal or political art, if there
41 State|          which is an ally of the royal art, and persuades men to
42 State|     superior to it but the truly royal?~YOUNG SOCRATES: No other.~
43 State|        power of the judge is not royal, but only the power of a
44 State|       law which ministers to the royal power?~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~
45 State|          of them is political or royal. For the truly royal ought
46 State|          or royal. For the truly royal ought not itself to act,
47 State|       describe the nature of the royal web, and show how the various
48 State|    STRANGER: In like manner, the royal science appears to me to
49 State|    having the inspiration of the royal muse, can implant this opinion,
50 State|       work, the whole process of royal weaving is comprised—never
51 State|  temperate natures, whenever the royal science has drawn the two