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but from those furnished with stings all
that are denominated1 malefactors?”
“Most true,” he said. “It is plain,
then,” said I, “that wherever you see beggars in a city,
there are somewhere in the neighborhood concealed thieves and cutpurses and
temple-robbers and similar artists in crime.”
“Clearly,” he said. “Well, then, in
oligarchical cities do you not see beggars?” “Nearly all
are such,” he said, “except the ruling class.”
“Are we not to suppose, then,
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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