[560b]
are
stealthily nurtured to take their place, owing to the father's ignorance of
true education, and wax numerous and strong.” “Yes, that
is wont to be the way of it.” “And they tug and pull
back to the same associations and in secret intercourse engender a
multitude.” “Yes indeed.” “And in
the end, I suppose, they seize the citadel1 of the young man's soul, finding
it empty and unoccupied by studies and honorable pursuits and true
discourses, which are the best watchmen
1 Cf. Tim. 90 A.
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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