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may not come nigh, nor may lover and beloved who rightly love and are
loved have anything to do with it?” “No, by heaven,
Socrates,” he said, “it must not come nigh
them.” “Thus, then, as it seems, you will lay down the
law in the city that we are founding, that the lover may kiss1 and pass the time with
and touch the beloved as a father would a son, for honorable ends, if he
persuade him. But otherwise he must so associate with the objects of his
care that there should never be any suspicion of anything further,
1 Cf. 468 B-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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