The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|         who is the improver of the citizens?’ (Compare Meno.) ‘All men
  2 Intro|            that he should make the citizens worse when he has to live
  3 Intro|            days in instructing the citizens without fee or reward—this
  4 Text |       young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught
  5 Text |          better, to live among bad citizens, or among good ones? Answer,
  6 Text |       alien, but especially to the citizens, inasmuch as they are my
  7 Text |           when you, who are my own citizens, cannot endure my discourses


Cratylus
    Part
  8 Intro|         first existed and men were citizens of them?~CLEINIAS: Hardly.~


Critias
    Part
  9 Intro|          of the primitive Athenian citizens (20,000), ‘which is about
 10 Intro|            were various classes of citizens, including handicraftsmen
 11 Intro|          lives as guardians of the citizens and leaders of the Hellenes.
 12 Text |            virtues of your ancient citizens.~CRITIAS: Friend Hermocrates,
 13 Text |         days by various classes of citizens;—there were artisans, and
 14 Text |            to receive of the other citizens anything more than their
 15 Text |         the guardians of their own citizens and the leaders of the Hellenes,
 16 Text |            absolute control of the citizens, and, in most cases, of


Crito
    Part
 17 Text |     against you, and all patriotic citizens will cast an evil eye upon


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Text |      Ionians, whether colonists or citizens of Athens; an ancestral


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 19 Intro|            in the unanimity of the citizens, and then in each of them
 20 Text |         fairest and tallest of the citizens, and this every one who
 21 Text |            about the health of the citizens; they only require that
 22 Text |          another’s services, as we citizens do in our daily life.~SOCRATES:
 23 Text |    SOCRATES: And you must give the citizens virtue, if you mean to administer


Gorgias
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 24 Intro|       Socrates too have taught the citizens better than to put him to
 25 Intro|          has a real regard for the citizens. But where are the orators
 26 Intro|           vice in the minds of his citizens. He is the physician who
 27 Intro|           the city should make the citizens as good as possible. But
 28 Intro|          did not Pericles make the citizens worse? For he gave them
 29 Intro|       improve the character of the citizens. I have told you again and
 30 Intro|       pandered to the vices of the citizens, and filled the city with
 31 Intro|          fit of illness comes, the citizens who in like manner applauded
 32 Intro|           that he has procured the citizens any pleasure, and if any
 33 Intro|            state, in which all the citizens have an equal chance of
 34 Intro|             the improvement of the citizens.’ He ministers to the weaker
 35 Intro|           treatment of freemen and citizens by physicians and of slaves
 36 Text |    senators in the council, or the citizens in the assembly, or at any
 37 Text |         the least power of all the citizens.~POLUS: What! are they not
 38 Text |        envy and admiration both of citizens and strangers? Is that the
 39 Text |           they seek to improve the citizens by their speeches, or are
 40 Text |    improvement of the souls of the citizens, and strives to say what
 41 Text |        justice in the souls of his citizens and take away injustice,
 42 Text |          treatment of our city and citizens? Must we not try and make
 43 Text |            about making any of the citizens better? Was there ever a
 44 Text |         but the improvement of the citizens? Have we not already admitted
 45 Text |          think that they were good citizens.~CALLICLES: I do.~SOCRATES:
 46 Text |            them must have made the citizens better instead of worse?~
 47 Text |        improvement of their fellow citizens, which is the prime object
 48 Text |           State had good and noble citizens? and when I ask you who
 49 Text |            the men who feasted the citizens and satisfied their desires,


Laws
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 50 1    |          they are in the field the citizens are by the nature of the
 51 1    |          state in which the better citizens win a victory over the mob
 52 1    |          meaning when you say that citizens who are of the same race
 53 1    |           of his ordinances on the citizens with a view to these, the
 54 1    |           be to take charge of his citizens, in youth and age, and at
 55 1    |          has to be careful how the citizens make their money and in
 56 1    |            the endurance which our citizens show in their naked exercises,
 57 1    |         hearts even of respectable citizens to melt like wax?~Megillus.
 58 1    |            to himself, that if our citizens are from their youth upward
 59 1    |      courage and cowardice of your citizens?”~Cleinias. “I should,”
 60 2    |          speaking—that their young citizens must be habituated to forms
 61 2    |           equestrian contests: the citizens are assembled; prizes are
 62 2    |         make the poets and all the citizens speak in this strain, and
 63 2    |       about which I should make my citizens speak in a manner different
 64 2    |        truth; he will persuade the citizens, in some way or other, by
 65 3    |         first existed and men were citizens of them?~Cleinias. Hardly.~
 66 4    |       there is some hope that your citizens may be virtuous: had you
 67 4    |         unfaithful both to her own citizens, and also to other nations.
 68 4    |            to the best part of the citizens. You may learn the evil
 69 4    |            can we imagine that the citizens in general will at once
 70 4    |     kindred and friends and fellow–citizens, and the rites of hospitality
 71 4    |        Athenian. I should wish the citizens to be as readily persuaded
 72 4    |       bodies and properties of the citizens, as regards both their occupations
 73 5    |           the state and his fellow citizens, he is by far the best,
 74 5    |           God, than wrongs done to citizens; for the stranger, having
 75 5    |           rulers in correcting the citizens as far as he can—he shall
 76 5    |            who want to join and be citizens of our state, after we have
 77 5    |            to be no disputes among citizens about property. If there
 78 5    |           place, the number of the citizens has to be determined, and
 79 5    |           as we can. The number of citizens can only be estimated satisfactorily
 80 5    |        required; and the number of citizens should be sufficient to
 81 5    |           state. The number of our citizens shall be 5040—this will
 82 5    |           in a state than that the citizens should be known to one another.
 83 5    |      origin of the second.~Let the citizens at once distribute their
 84 5    |        distribute as sons to those citizens who have no children and
 85 5    |          and there be an excess of citizens, owing to the too great
 86 5    |          we ought not to introduce citizens of spurious birth and education,
 87 5    |         use of them. Wherefore our citizens, as we say, should have
 88 5    |           of our laws was that the citizens should be as happy as may
 89 5    |         fourth class, in which the citizens will be placed, and they
 90 5    |        here should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty,
 91 5    |        legislator shall divide the citizens into twelve parts, and arrange
 92 5    |       dreams, or making a city and citizens of wax. There is truth in
 93 5    |        these things and to bid the citizens, as far as possible, not
 94 6    |         and the remainder from the citizens of Cnosus. Of those latter
 95 6    |           the way in which the new citizens may be best managed under
 96 6    |            the whole city, and the citizens shall in like manner select
 97 6    |          be again exhibited to the citizens; in the third, let any one
 98 6    |         minae which are allowed to citizens of the first class, three
 99 6    |         each class. First, all the citizens shall select candidates
100 6    |            noted down, for all the citizens to see, and every man shall
101 6    |         arises among neighbours or citizens, and any one, whether slave
102 6    |       shall be compulsory to go on citizens of the first and second
103 6    |           from the second class of citizens, and three first classes
104 6    |            elected, who of all the citizens is in every way best; him
105 6    |           the causes of his fellow–citizens during the ensuing year
106 6    |         and alien among his fellow–citizens, and is still unmarried
107 6    |            a compensation; for the citizens of our state are provided
108 6    |     Athenian. Now that each of the citizens is provided, as far as possible,
109 6    |         leaves the private life of citizens wholly to take care of itself;
110 7    |         make the characters of the citizens various and dissimilar:—
111 7    |          the whole assembly of the citizens are to offer sacrifices
112 7    |       offering sacrifice makes the citizens weep most, carries away
113 7    |          as these? And if ever our citizens must hear such lamentations,
114 7    |            words, he will make our citizens pray for the opposite of
115 7    |           objection to a law, that citizens who are departed and have
116 7    |            bad, whether enemies or citizens, and are honoured and reverenced
117 7    |      courage into the minds of the citizens. When the day breaks, the
118 7    |      assistants in this charge any citizens, male or female, whom he
119 7    |     military matters, but that all citizens, male and female alike,
120 7    |     Thenceforward the city and the citizens shall continue to have the
121 7    |            and I maintain that our citizens and our youth ought to learn
122 8    |        behalf of the city, and the citizens, and their possessions.
123 8    |         and without. Wherefore the citizens ought to practise war—not
124 8    |           his own mind:—Who are my citizens for whom I have set in order
125 8    |           if fear is dead then the citizens will never find a test of
126 8    |      escaped both of them; for her citizens have the greatest leisure,
127 8    |       thinks best for the city and citizens—ordaining what is good and
128 8    |       their minds than your and my citizens, and in their bodies far
129 8    |           the following terms: Our citizens ought not to fall below
130 8    |        What is that?~Athenian. Our citizens should not allow pleasures
131 8    |         from sea and land, but our citizens from land only. And this
132 8    |            alteration, but let the citizens live in the observance of
133 8    |           does wrong to any of the citizens or they do wrong to any
134 8    |           In the second place, our citizens should have separate houses
135 8    |     whether the articles which the citizens are under regulations to
136 8    |            charge on behalf of the citizens, shall produce to the strangers
137 8    |          no one shall sell them to citizens or their slaves, nor shall
138 9    |  apprehending that some one of our citizens may be like a seed which
139 9    |        softened by fire. Among our citizens there may be those who cannot
140 9    |         state, for the lots of the citizens ought always to continue
141 9    |         defendant, and let all the citizens who can spare time hear
142 9    |      appointed lot. And out of the citizens who have more than one son
143 9    |           now doing, is giving the citizens education and not laws;
144 9    |          various kinds done by the citizens to one another in the intercourse
145 9    |            relieve the city of bad citizens. In such cases, and in such
146 9    |         Gods or against his fellow–citizens, of which death is the penalty
147 9    |          the law; or if any of the citizens be in perpetual exile, and
148 10   |         intercourse with the other citizens, except with members of
149 10   |         children who are fit to be citizens, let the guardians of orphans
150 11   |     advising the great body of the citizens to honour the brave men
151 11   |            to say to our departing citizens.~Cleinias. What?~Athenian.
152 11   |        would choose out of all the citizens a son for himself, and a
153 11   |           guardians any one of the citizens who is willing and whom
154 11   |           single one of the eldest citizens shall be the judges, and
155 11   |         turn the laugh against our citizens? or do we draw the distinction
156 11   |   permitted to ridicule any of the citizens, either by word or likeness,
157 12   |         has been brought up as our citizens will have been, if he be
158 12   |           and they only of all the citizens shall be adorned with a
159 12   |           different from the other citizens. They shall be decked in
160 12   |        deciding causes between all citizens be the same as in cases
161 12   |            strangers, and from the citizens themselves rushing off into
162 12   |          others, and for their own citizens never to go to other places,
163 12   |          Nemea and to the Isthmus,—citizens should be sent to take part
164 12   |          the guardians, being such citizens as desire to look a little
165 12   |     civilized, nor, again, can the citizens of a city properly observe
166 12   |            These are they whom the citizens of a well ordered city should
167 12   |          should send forth her own citizens, showing respect to Zeus,
168 12   |          be kept a secret from the citizens at large; and, more especially,
169 12   |           bad, and others that the citizens should be rich, not caring
170 12   |         the guardians of the other citizens, to excel the rest of mankind,
171 12   |          of our state? Are all our citizens to be equal in acquirements,
172 12   |      indeed excuse the mass of the citizens, who only follow the voice
173 12   |        image, in the hope that our citizens might be duly mingled and


Menexenus
    Part
174 Text |            masters. But we and our citizens are brethren, the children
175 Text |           breaking out of war, our citizens met the Lacedaemonians at
176 Text |     blockaded at Mitylene. But the citizens themselves embarked, and
177 Text |          over them above all other citizens, and they will see that


Meno
    Part
178 Text |      receive and when to send away citizens and strangers, as a good


Protagoras
    Part
179 Intro|           wisest and best Athenian citizens do not teach their sons
180 Intro|     ignorant of the common duty of citizens? To the doubt of Socrates
181 Text |           promise to make men good citizens?~That, Socrates, is exactly
182 Text |         the best and wisest of our citizens are unable to impart their
183 Text |           Athenians, too, your own citizens, like other men, punish
184 Text |           quality of which all the citizens must be partakers, if there


The Republic
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185 1    |       taking away the money of the citizens has made slaves of them,
186 1    |           blessed, not only by the citizens but by all who hear of his
187 2    |  Undoubtedly. ~Then more than four citizens will be required; for the
188 2    |           must be another class of citizens who will bring the required
189 2    |           in the dealings of these citizens with one another. I cannot
190 2    |           been any quarrel between citizens; this is what old men and
191 3    |          enemies or with their own citizens, may be allowed to lie for
192 3    |          more than I can allow our citizens to believe that he, the
193 3    |       State, lest the taste of our citizens be corrupted by him? We
194 3    |            about the dances of our citizens, or about their hunting
195 3    |           maintain peace among our citizens at home, that the one may
196 3    |           against attacks, and her citizens they are to regard as children
197 3    |           have only told you half. Citizens, we shall say to them in
198 3    |          possibility of making our citizens believe in it? ~Not in the
199 3    |            being stronger than our citizens, may not grow to be too
200 3    |        them to prey upon the other citizens. Any man of sense must acknowledge
201 3    |          agree to receive from the citizens a fixed rate of pay, enough
202 3    |          And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle
203 3    |     instead of allies of the other citizens; hating and being hated,
204 4    |           of fortune; but our poor citizens are no better than mercenaries
205 4    |         view of making a few happy citizens, but as a whole; and by
206 4    |            life of revelry, not of citizens who are doing their duty
207 4    |         that, before engaging, our citizens send an embassy to one of
208 4    |           that, in the case of the citizens generally, each individual
209 4    |          said, and nurture: If our citizens are well educated, and grow
210 4    |        well-conducted and virtuous citizens. ~Very true, he said. ~And
211 4    |    ill-ordered States in which the citizens are forbidden under pain
212 4    |     founded State among any of the citizens which advises, not about
213 4    |            other. ~The rest of the citizens may be courageous or may
214 4    |              Undoubtedly. ~And the citizens being thus agreed among
215 4    |      shoemaker and the rest of the citizens to be doing each his own
216 5    |         born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion,
217 5    |      guardians are the best of our citizens? ~By far the best. ~And
218 5    |            and pains-where all the citizens are glad or grieved on the
219 5    |       happening to the city or the citizens? ~Certainly. ~Such differences
220 5    |           Then when any one of the citizens experiences any good or
221 5    |         whom will call one another citizens? ~Of course. ~But is there
222 5    |         other name besides that of citizens do the people give the rulers? ~
223 5    |           in their ears by all the citizens about those who are intimated
224 5    |       wives and children among our citizens is clearly the source of
225 5    |          to receive from the other citizens, and they were to have no
226 5    |         way the laws will help the citizens to keep the peace with one
227 5    |            which is secured to our citizens, who have won a more glorious
228 5    |         they are to watch over the citizens in common whether abiding
229 5    |        replied. ~Then will not the citizens be good and civilized? ~
230 5    |           agree, he said, that our citizens should thus deal with their
231 5    |            have omitted, that your citizens will be the bravest of warriors,
232 6    |           when the strength of our citizens fails and is past civil
233 6    |           been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing
234 7    |       whole State, and he held the citizens together by persuasion and
235 7    |        yourselves and of the other citizens, and have educated you far
236 7    |            moved to pity about our citizens who are now thirty years
237 8    |           receiving from the other citizens, in lieu of annual payment,
238 8    |         thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. ~
239 8    |           cannot exist together in citizens of the same State to any
240 8    |        advantage of compelling the citizens to look to their characters:
241 8    |      assisting one division of the citizens, so too the young man is
242 8    |             Yes, I said; and loyal citizens are insultingly termed by
243 8    |         all, see how sensitive the citizens become; they chafe impatiently
244 8    |  detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and
245 8    |         you mean? ~He will rob the citizens of their slaves; he will
246 8    |        said, and these are the new citizens whom he has called into


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
247 Text |         look at certain of our own citizens,—and of their actions we


The Seventh Letter
    Part
248 Text |            to carry off one of the citizens by force to execution, in
249 Text |        city and restored it to the citizens, the Syracusans went through
250 Text |         from Athens, my own fellow citizens, and reported that I was


The Statesman
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251 Intro|       without law, and whether the citizens like or not, do what is
252 Intro|         ignorance. The rest of the citizens she blends into one, combining
253 Intro|    government in a middle class of citizens, sufficiently numerous for
254 Text |            from the hive swarms of citizens, or, by introducing persons
255 Text |         laws, with the will of the citizens or against the will of the
256 Text |            against the will of the citizens, do what is for their interest?
257 Text |        distributing justice to the citizens with intelligence and skill,
258 Text |          STRANGER: The rest of the citizens, out of whom, if they have


Timaeus
    Part
259 Intro|            and distribution of the citizens into classes, the double
260 Intro|       goddess Neith or Athene. The citizens have a friendly feeling
261 Intro|          was between your city and citizens and the ancient Athenian
262 Intro| antediluvian ancestors may be your citizens. ‘That is excellent, Critias,
263 Intro|           you as the lost Athenian citizens of whom the Egyptian record
264 Text |            constituted and of what citizens composed it would seem likely
265 Text |       dispersed among the inferior citizens; and while they were all
266 Text |         celebrate the city and her citizens in a befitting manner, and
267 Text |        which King Amasis came. The citizens have a deity for their foundress;
268 Text |           order about these former citizens. You are welcome to hear
269 Text |        years old. As touching your citizens of 9000 years ago, I will
270 Text |      yesterday about your city and citizens, the tale which I have just
271 Text |           told to me. The city and citizens, which you yesterday described
272 Text |           we will suppose that the citizens whom you imagined, were
273 Text |   inconsistency in saying that the citizens of your republic are these
274 Text |           into court and make them citizens, as if they were those very