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ἔοικεν: sc. ὁ λόγος τοῦτο βούλεσθαι λέγειν: not (as J. and C.) “it seems a natural way of speaking.” κρείττω -- αὑτῆς. Cf. Laws 626 E ff., where κρείττων αὑτῆς is similarly applied to a city and explained in the same way. οὗ: not the adverb, as Stallbaum supposed, but a partitive genitive: ‘that whereof the better part rules the worse’ etc.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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