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arising in democracy as well as in
oligarchy enslaves it?” “You say truly,” he
replied. “That then,” I said, “was what I had
in mind, the class of idle and spendthrift men, the most enterprising and
vigorous portion being leaders and the less manly spirits followers. We were
likening them to drones,1
some equipped with stings and others stingless.” “And
rightly too,” he said. “These two kinds,
then,” I said, “when they arise in any state, create a
disturbance like that produced in the body2 by phlegm and gall.
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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