[469c]
to spare Greeks,
foreseeing the danger1 of enslavement by the
barbarians?” “Sparing them is wholly and altogether the
better,” said he. “They are not, then, themselves to own
Greek slaves, either, and they should advise the other Greeks not
to?” “By all means,” he said; “at
any rate in that way they would be more likely to turn against the
barbarians and keep their hands from one another.” “And
how about stripping the dead after victory of anything except their weapons:
is that well? Does it not furnish a pretext to cowards
1 For the following Cf. Laws 693 A, and Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, iii. p. 275.
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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