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a city is to be called
wise and well advised?” “By no means for that, but
rather mistress of the arts of building.” “Then a city
is not to be styled wise because of the deliberations1 of
the science of wooden utensils for their best production?”
“No, I grant you.” “Is it, then, because of
that of brass implements or any other of that kind?”
“None whatsoever,” he said. “Nor yet because
of the science of the production of crops from the soil, but the name it
takes from that is agricultural.” “I think
so.” “Then,” said I, “is there any
science in the city just founded by us residing in any of its citizens which
does not take counsel about some particular thing
1 βουλευομένη: Heindorf's βουλευομένην is perhaps supported by ᾗ . . . βουλεύεται below, but in view of Plato's colloquial anacloluthic style is unnecessary.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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