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and prowess and the
high birth and the virtues of their ancestors, and others of ill repute in
the same things, and similarly of women. But there was no determination of
the quality of soul, because the choice of a different life inevitably1 determined a
different character. But all other things were commingled with one another
and with wealth and poverty and sickness and health and the
intermediate2 conditions.
—And there, dear Glaucon, it appears, is the supreme hazard3 for a man.
1 For the idiom ἀναγκαίως ἔχειν Cf. Phaedo 91 E, Laws 771 E, 928 E, Lysias vi. 35.
3 Cf. Phaedo 107 C, 114 D, Gorg. 526 E, Eurip.Medea 235ἀγὼν μέγιστος, Thucyd. i. 32. 5μέγας ὁ κίνδυνος, Aristoph.Clouds 955νῦν γὰρ ἅπας . . . κίνδυνος ἀνεῖται, Frogs 882ἀγὼν . . . ὁ μέγας, Antiphon v. 43ἐν ᾦ μοι ὁ πᾶς κίνδυνος ἦν. For the expression Cf. Gorg. 470 Eἐν τούτῳ ἡ πᾶσα εὐδαιμονία ἐστιν.
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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