[568c]
among them will pardon us.”
“But going about to other cities, I fancy, collecting crowds and
hiring fine, loud, persuasive voices,1 they draw the
polities towards tyrannies or democracies.” “Yes,
indeed.” “And, further, they are paid and honored for
this, chiefly, as is to be expected, by tyrants, and secondly by
democracy.2 But the higher they go, breasting constitution hill, the
more their honor fails,
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.