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the coin of the
multitude, while that which dwells within them is unsullied. But for these
only of all the dwellers in the city it is not lawful to handle gold and
silver and to touch them nor yet to come under the same roof1 with
them, nor to hang them as ornaments on their limbs nor to drink from silver
and gold. So living they would save themselves and save their city.2 But whenever they shall acquire for themselves land of their own
and houses and coin, they will be house-holders and farmers instead of
guardians, and will be transformed
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