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and sacrifices for them as to divinities if
the Pythian oracle approves1 or, if not, as to divine
and godlike men.2” “A most beautiful finish, Socrates, you have
put upon your rulers, as if you were a statuary.3” “And on the women4
too, Glaucon,” said I; “for you must not suppose that my
words apply to the men more than to all women who arise among them endowed with
the requisite qualities.” “That is right,” he
said, “if they are to share equally in all things with the men as we
laid it down.”
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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