This text is part of:
, D 14 θαρρήσαντες -- ἑαυτῶν. Cf. Solon Frag. 11. 5—8 Bergk. τὸν Κροίσῳ κτλ. See Hdt. I 55. αἰδεσθείη κτλ. Liebhold's conjecture οἰκισθείη is of course absurd. The expression θανάτῳ διδόναι is paullo exquisitius dictum, resembling our phrase ‘is done to death’: cf. (with Stallbaum) IX 571 E, 574 C and Phaedr. 254 E (ὀδύναις ἔδωκεν, imitated from Homer Od. XVII 567). μέγας μεγαλωστί. Il. XVI 776. ἐν τῷ δίφρῳ κτλ. The figure—a common one—is of course suggested by the Homeric allusion. Cebriones ἀρνευτῆρι ἐοικὼς | κάππεσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐεργέος δίφρου (ib. 743). Not so the προστάτης: he fells others, but himself (αὐτὸς) ἕστηκεν ἐν τῷ δίφρῳ τῆς πόλεως.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.