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The insufficiency of man causes the formation of the πόλις (Plat. Rep. ii. 369 seq.); the πόλις is to be αὐτάρκης, Arist. Pol. vii. 4. 14 seq., 1326 B; but Plato (Rep. 370 E) sees (as Solon here) that no πόλις can supply all it needs.

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