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lest they fall into poverty or war?”Here Glaucon broke in: “No relishes1 apparently,” he
said, “for the men you describe as feasting.”
“True” said I; “I forgot that they will also
have relishes—salt, of course, and olives and cheese and onions
and greens, the sort of things they boil in the country, they will boil up
together. But for dessert we will serve them figs and chickpeas and beans,
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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