1 The mothers of the idyllic state nursed their own children, but in the ideal state the wives of the guardians are relieved of this burden by special provision. Cf. 460 D.
2 The rhetoricians of the empire liked to repeat that no barber was known at Rome in the first 200 or 300 years of the city.
3 Illogical idiom referring to the swine. Cf. 598 C.
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