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what will be its way of life? Is it not obvious that in
some things it will imitate the preceding polity, in some the oligarchy,
since it is intermediate, and that it will also have some qualities peculiar
to itself?” “That is so,” he said.
“Then in honoring its rulers and in the abstention of its warrior
class from farming1
and handicraft and money-making in general, and in the provision of common
public tables2 and the devotion to physical
training and expertness in the game and contest of war—in all
these traits it will copy the preceding state?”
“Yes.” “But in its fear
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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