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that when the rulers are established
in office they shall conduct these soldiers and settle them in
habitations1 such as we
described, that have nothing private for anybody but are common for all, and
in addition to such habitations we agreed, if you remember, what should be
the nature of their possessions.2” “Why, yes, I remember,” he said,
“that we thought it right that none of them should have anything
that ordinary men3 now
possess, but that, being as it were athletes4
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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