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“They do indeed,” he said.
“And the people grant it, I suppose, fearing for him but
unconcerned for themselves.” “Yes, indeed.”
“And when he sees this, the man who has wealth and with his wealth
the repute of hostility to democracy,1 then in the words of the oracle
delivered to Croesus,“By the pebble-strewn strand of the
Hermos Swift is his flight, he stays not nor blushes to show the white
feather.””Hdt. 1.55 “No,
for he would never get a second chance to blush.” “And
he who is caught, methinks, is delivered to his death.”
“Inevitably.” “And then obviously that
protector does not lie prostrate, “‘mighty with far-flung limbs,’”Hom. Il. 16.776 in Homeric overthrow,2 but
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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