[560d]
and
refuse admission to the auxiliary force itself, and will not grant audience
as to envoys to the words of older friends in private life. And they
themselves prevail in the conflict, and naming reverence and awe
‘folly’1 thrust it forth, a
dishonored fugitive. And temperance they call ‘want of
manhood’ and banish it with contumely, and they teach that
moderation and orderly expenditure are ‘rusticity’ and
‘illiberality,’ and they combine with a gang of
unprofitable and harmful appetites to drive them over the border.2”
“They do indeed.” “And when they have emptied
1 Cf. 474 D, Thucyd. iii. 82 Wilamowitz, Platon, i. 435-436 says that Plato had not used Thucydides. But cf. Gomperz iii. 331, and What Plato Said, pp. 2-3, 6, 8. See Isoc.Antid. 284σκώπτειν καὶ μιμεῖσθαι δυναμένους εὐφυεῖς καλοῦσι, etc., Areop. 20 and 49, Aristot.Eth. Nic. 1180 b 25, Quintil. iii. 7. 25 and viii. 6. 36, Sallust, Cat.C 52 “iam pridem equidem nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus,” etc.
2 ὑπερορίζουσι: cf. Laws 855 Cὑπερορίαν φυγάδα, 866 D.
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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