[498e]
but only the forced and artificial
chiming of word and phrase, not spontaneous and accidental as has happened
here. But the figure of a man ‘equilibrated’ and
‘assimilated’ to virtue's self perfectly, so far as may
be, in word and deed, and holding rule in a city of like quality, that is a
thing they have never seen
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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