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what it is and what1 a
creature it begot and cherished and bred to greatness, and that in its
weakness it tries to expel the stronger.” “What do you
mean?” said I; “will the tyrant dare to use force
against his father, and, if he does not yield, to strike him2?” “Yes,” he said, “after
he has once taken from him his arms.” “A very
parricide,” said I, “you make the tyrant out to be, and
a cruel nurse of old age, and, as it seems, this is at last tyranny open and
avowed, and, as the saying goes, the demos trying to escape the smoke of
submission to the free would have plunged
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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