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the four constitutions you had in mind,
Polemarchus and Adeimantus thereupon broke in, and that was how you took up
the discussion again and brought to this point.1”
“Your memory is most exact,” I said. “A second
time then, as in a wrestling-match, offer me the same hold,2 and when I repeat my question try to tell me what you were then
about to say.” “I will if I can,” said I.
“And indeed,” said he, “I am eager myself to
hear what four forms of government you meant.”
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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