[618d]
what habit of soul operates for good or for
evil, and what are the effects of high and low birth and private station and
office and strength and weakness and quickness of apprehension and dullness
and all similar natural and acquired habits of the soul, when blended and
combined with one another,1 so
that with consideration of all these things he will be able to make a
reasoned choice between the better and the worse life,
1 The singular verb is used after plural subjects, because the subjects are united in the writer's mind into one general idea. Cf. Rep. 363 A, Laws 925 E, Symp. 188 B.
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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