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Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 556b (search)
the pursuit of wealth would be less shameless in the state and fewer of the evils of which we spoke just now would grow up there.” “Much fewer,” he said. “But as it is, and for all these reasons, this is the plight to which the rulers in the state reduce their subjects, and as for themselves and their off-spring, do they not make the young spoiledCf. What Plato Said, p. 483, on Laches 179 D, and Aristot.Pol. 1310 a 23. wantons averse to toil of body an
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 556d (search)
n the shade, and burdened with superfluous flesh,Cf. Soph.Ajax 758PERISSA\ KA)NO/NHTA SW/MATA. and sees him panting and helplessFor a similar picture cf. Aristoph.Frogs 1086-1098. Cf. also Gorg. 518 C, and for the whole passage Xen.Mem. iii. 5. 15, Aristot.Pol. 1310 a 24-25.—do you not suppose he will think that such fellows keep their wealth by the cowardiceThe poor, though stronger, are too cowardly to use force. For KAKI/A| TH=| SFETE/RA| cf. Lysias ii. 65KAKI/A| TH=| AU(TW=N, Rhesus 813-814TH=| *FRUGW=N KAKANDRI/A|, Phaedrus 248 B, Symp. 182 D, Crito 45
Plato, Republic, Book 8, section 565d (search)
said I, “that when a tyrant arises he sprouts from a protectorate rootCf. Aristot.Pol. 1310 b 14OI( PLEI=STOI TW=N TURA/NNWN GEGO/NASIN E)K DHMAGWGW=N, etc., ibid. 1304 b 20 ff. and from nothing else.” “Very plain.” “What, then, is the starting-point of the transformation of a protector into a tyrant? Is it not obviously when the protector's acts begin to reproduce the legend that is told of the shrine of Lycaean Zeus in ArcadiaCf. Frazer on Pausanias viii. 2 (vol. iv. p. 189) and Cook's Zeus, vol. i. p. 70. The archaic religious rhetoric of what follows testifies to the intensity of Plato's feeling. Cf. the language of the Laws