[503e]
“Of
course.” “They must, then, be tested in the toils and
fears and pleasures of which we then spoke,1 and we have also now to speak of a point we then
passed by, that we must exercise them in many studies, watching them to see
whether their nature is capable of enduring the greatest and most difficult
studies
1 In 412 C ff.
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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