[361d]
seeming
all his life to be unjust though being just, that so, both men attaining to
the limit, the one of injustice, the other of justice, we may pass judgement
which of the two is the happier.”“Bless me, my dear Glaucon,” said I, “how
strenuously you polish off each of your two men for the competition for the
prize as if it were a statue.1” “To the best of my ability,” he
replied, “and if such is the nature of the two, it becomes an easy
matter, I fancy, to unfold the tale of the sort of life that awaits each.
1 Cf. 540 C.
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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